Every year around this time the debate about later school start times heats up. Since 1994 doctors and scientists have been recommending that middle school and high school aged students begin classes after 8:30 a.m., but it wasn’t until recently that school administrators started taking these suggestions seriously. One by one we’ve heard stories […]
The Great Debate – School Start Times
As school boards and administrations begin looking ahead to the 2016-2017 school year (can you believe it?!), the issue of school start times has been coming up frequently. Over the last few years many professionals – in both the education and medical fields – have tauted the benefits of later start times for students in […]