Schools Waking Up to Teens' Unique Sleep Needs

Schools Waking Up to Teens' Unique Sleep Needs
Some Officials Are Pushing Back Start Times to Give Students the Slumber Their Biology Craves
By Valerie StraussWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 10, 2006; Page A08
Brown University Prof. Mary Carskadon thinks most U.S. school systems should pay close attention to what she found in the saliva of teenagers.
If they did, she said, high schools would start later than they do, and teachers would educate students about a subject as basic as reading and math: sleep.