Study Backs Idea That Students Get More Sleep With Later School Start Times

A new study adds to the growing evidence that teens get more sleep when schools starts later.

The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, show that students at two Seattle high schools got significantly more sleep after start times were pushed to almost an hour later.

This boosted the total amount of sleep on school nights from a median of six hours and 50 minutes, under the earlier start time, to seven hours and 24 minutes under the later start time.  That represents a...

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