Start School Later

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Start School Later, aka Healthy Hours, is a non-profit organization in the United States.[1][2][3] Founded in 2011 after Maryland-based science writer Terra Ziporyn Snider started an online petition via We the People that brought together[4] grassroots advocates, sleep researchers, pediatricians, social workers, and educators,[5][6][7][8][9] the coalition aims to help communities delay school starting times; ensure safe, healthy school hours; and provide sleep education programs for students and school communities.[10]

Start School Later currently has 137 volunteer-led chapters in 3 countries, 31 US states and Washington, D.C., has been featured in Beme,[11] The Huffington Post,[12] and Psychiatric News,[13] 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.[14][15] In 2013 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan tweeted his support for later high school start times,[16] and since 2014 the American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Medical Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the American Association of Sleep Technologists have issued policy statements recommending that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.[17] In 2019 it sponsored with the California State PTA, the first US statewide legislation explicitly designed to protect and recognize the importance of adolescent sleep health by aligning secondary school hours with the substantial body of scientific evidence regarding adolescent sleep needs and timing.

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. In 2019, legislation co-sponsored by Start School Later and the made California the first state in the nation to set a floor on how early middle and high schools can require attendance.[18] In 2021, Start School Later received the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation's Sleep Champion Award.

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. ^ "California School Start Time Bill Becomes Law | Psychology Today".
  5. ^ Wolfson, Amy; Ziporyn, Terra (2020). "Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood". In Montgomery-Downs, Hawley (ed.). Sleep Science. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 176–177. ISBN 9780197523308.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ National Poll on Children's Health. Parents Conflicted About Later Start Times for Teens. February 16, 2015.
  8. ^ Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Study of Safe and Healthy School Hours. December 2014.
  9. ^ Paul Kelley and Clark Lee. Later School Start Times in Adolescence: Time for Change. Education Commission of the United States. 2014.
  10. ^ Guidestar. "Start School Later Inc: Health, Safety, and Equity in Education".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ BEME News (2019-03-27), Should school start later?, retrieved 2019-03-28
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Log in".
  15. ^ "Editorial Support".
  16. ^ 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
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ "California becomes first state in the country to push back school start times". 14 October 2019.

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