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Bright Screens and Sleep
Here’s a handy review of the effects that bright computer and tablet screens have on sleep. (Hint: they’re not helping.) Author Viatcheslav Wlassoff concludes with a few simple hints on how to reduce the detrimental effects of screens on melatonin.
Parents, High School Start Times, and Sleepy Teens
Research findings that support later high-school start times have been more and more common in recent years. (See also here.) And teachers I know are increasingly vocal about letting teens sleep later. And yet, when I talk with high school
The Evidence Mounts: Delaying Middle and High School Start Times
Here’s the statement from the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: During adolescence, internal circadian rhythms and biological sleep drive change to result in later sleep and wake times. As a result of these changes, early middle school and high school
Does Later High School Start Time Really Lead to More Sleep?
Yes. Ask Canada. Or, better still, gather data from 30,000 Canadian high school students.