Effects of a later school start time on high schoolers

According to a study done by the Department of Public Policy, Education Policy Initiative at Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill, it is a good thing for high school students to start later in the morning. The research found later starts improve the sleep and educational outcomes of teenagers.

The abstract: Later school start times have emerged as a potential policy to improve the sleep and educational outcomes of teenagers. This study uses a quasi-experimental comparative interrupted time series approach to examine a 90-minute delay in start times in an urban district in North Carolina. Results show that the later start time resulted in more sleep for students and improved course grades but limited evidence of benefits to other educational outcomes. In addition, the evidence suggests that disruptions from the change may temporarily decrease some educational outcomes and that these disruption effects are concentrated among low-income students and students of color.

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