The Mercury News – Sharon Noguchi
“With the start of the new academic year, high school students are off and running — dashing from home to school to jobs, then staying up until the wee hours to study and snapchat. What doesn’t fit into their crammed days: enough sleep. And it’s only becoming worse. For the first time, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is saying that delayed bedtimes and early school start times are making America’s teens chronically sleep-deprived. It is joining the American Academy of Pediatrics in urging high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. But at many schools in the Bay Area and elsewhere, the first bell rings well before 8 a.m. — and as early as 7 a.m. on some campuses.”(more)