#9 - The Controversy Surrounding School Start Times

Students everywhere are beginning to head back to school soon, so in this Back-To-School episode, I examine the ongoing school start time debate in this country. In the United States, the vast majority of middle and high school students start school early and thus do not have access to adequate sleep. In this episode, we will:

• identify the healthy range of sleep school-aged and high school students require
• target the biggest threats to the sleep opportunity of school students
• explore the nature of the school start time debate and the organizations/studies supporting the change
• explain the factors that tend to derail schools from delaying school start times
• dive into the emerging research that came out of the COVID lockdown that overwhelmingly  shows that delayed start times and virtual learning tends to increase total sleep time and the percentage of kids sleeping adequately.
• dissect the negative psychological outcomes of virtual learning that confound the benefits of some studies
• learn what can be done at a local level and beyond

Produced by: Maeve Winter

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Thanks for listening and sleep well!