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Start School Later, aka Healthy Hours, is a non-profit organization in the United States.[1][2][3] It was founded in 2011 by grassroots advocates, sleep researchers, pediatricians, social workers, and educators to help communities delay school starting times and ensure safe, healthy school hours.[4][5][6][7] The organization, which has over 90 chapters throughout the United States, has been featured in The Huffington Post[8] and Psychiatric News[9] and has received media coverage and editorial support in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC Brasil, WGBH, and The Washington Post.[10][11] In 2013 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan tweeted his support for later high school start times,[12] and since 2014 the American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Medical Association have issued a policy statement recommending that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.[13]

In April 2017, Start School Later - together with the RAND Corporation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine - co-sponsored the first-ever national conference on Adolescent Sleep, Health, and School Start Times.

References

  1. ^ Chantal DMello. This Woman is Leading the Charge to Start School Later. The Huffington Post. April 21, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/start-school-later-sleep-snider_us_5718f5a6e4b0479c59d74233?section=parents&
  2. ^ Hoffman, Jan (March 13, 2014). "To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In". The New York Times. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Reddy, Sumathi (August 25, 2014). "Teens Need Later Start to School Day, Doctors Group Says". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  4. ^ Sheldon, Stephen H.; Ferber, Richard; Kryger, Meir; Gozal, David (2014). Principles of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-4557-0318-0.
  5. ^ National Poll on Children's Health. Parents Conflicted About Later Start Times for Teens. February 16, 2015.
  6. ^ Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Study of Safe and Healthy School Hours. December 2014.
  7. ^ Paul Kelley and Clark Lee. Later School Start Times in Adolescence: Time for Change. Education Commission of the United States. 2014.
  8. ^ Rebecca Klein. Why School Start Times Play A Huge Role In Kids’ Success. The Huffington Post. June 9, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-start-time-kids-success_us_57586d22e4b0ced23ca6c444
  9. ^ Lamberg, Lynne (2016-08-04). "AMA Recommends Schools Start Later To Improve Teen Sleep". Psychiatric News. 51 (15): 1. doi:10.1176/appi.pn.2016.8a1.
  10. ^ http://www.startschoollater.net/ssl-in-the-news.html
  11. ^ http://www.startschoollater.net/editorial-support.html
  12. ^ Duncan, Arne (arneduncan). “Common sense to improve student achievement that too few have implemented: let teens sleep more, start school later wapo.st/14WCs4R.” 19 Aug 2013, 6.41 p.m. Tweet
  13. ^ American Academcy of Pediatrics. Policy Statement:School Start Times for Adolescents. Pediatrics 2014 Sep;134(3):642-649. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/08/19/peds.2014-1697
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