SEATTLE (AP) — High school students are getting more sleep in Seattle. That’s the finding of a study on later school start times.
Teenagers wore activity monitors to discover whether a later start to the school day would help them get more sleep. It did, adding 34 minutes of slumber a night. They also reported less daytime sleepiness, and grades improved.
The Seattle School District pushed back its start time to 8:45 a.m. in 2016 for high schools and most middle schools, joining other U.S. school districts adopting similar changes to help sleep-deprived teens.
The results of the University of Washington study were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
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