{"id":2712,"date":"2017-12-29T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2017-12-25T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T01:37:11","slug":"an-extra-half-hour-of-sleep-an-extra-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/an-extra-half-hour-of-sleep-an-extra-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"An Extra Half-Hour of Sleep? An Extra Hour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_80298747_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2713\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_80298747_Credit.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_80298747_Credit\" width=\"793\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_80298747_Credit.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_80298747_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever met a teenager, you might be skeptical about the idea of starting high-school classes later. After all, you might worry that they&#8217;ll just <em>stay up<\/em> later. They are, after all, teenagers&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>What does research on high school start time say?<\/h2>\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2352721817301936?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> done by Penn State researchers, you needn&#8217;t worry. Later high-school start times do in fact translate into more sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically: students whose first class started later than 8:30 got between 27 and 57 (!) more minutes of sleep. Imagine just how much more learning might happen if a teen regularly got <em>an extra hour<\/em> of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers based these conclusions on sleep diaries that lasted only a week; I&#8217;d be more persuaded if they had data from a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>However, this finding does echo a conclusion that I reported on back in <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/does-later-high-school-start-time-lead-to-more-sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\">April<\/a>. Given these converging data&#8211;and, frankly, common sense&#8211;I&#8217;m inclined to believe that later start times really do help students get more sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students whose first class started later than 8:30 got between 27 and 57 (!) more minutes of sleep than students whose classes started earlier. Imagine just how much more learning might happen if a teen regularly got an extra hour of sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-high-school","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}