Talk:Start school later movement

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Sleep Friendly Schools
Would it be possible to add more to this section of the article? The topic is interesting and I think it would be beneficial to further explain these types of schools. Dana.skaggs (talk) 19:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Impacts of early start times
There are a lot of impacts, but there are no "real-life" examples, or facts from studies. I feel that this section needs more proof. Dana.skaggs (talk) 19:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

History
I feel there needs to be more about the history, such as when schools started in the 50s, or more things of that nature. Dana.skaggs (talk) 19:31, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Also, shouldn't a lot of the grassroots section be under the history section? Dana.skaggs (talk) 19:36, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

you need to be quiet — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.170.90.98 (talk) 14:25, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Summary of research done regarding school start times
I have decided to research the effects of early school starts times on secondary students and their performance. Research indicates that it is not in the student’s best interest to start school so early in the mornings as their performance tends to be sluggish and they are sleep deprived. Medical studies conclude that as a child goes through puberty, their sleep cycles change and they tend to go to sleep later at night and sleep later in the morning. With secondary school start times being earlier than elementary and middle school start times, secondary students are not getting the recommended amount of sleep at night. The effects of being sleep deprived is a decrease in memory, performance and overall academic success. The solution to this problem is to change school start times for secondary students to be later in the morning, and have the elementary and middle school students start their day earlier. This may impact bus schedules, parent work schedules, after school extracurricular activities, but I believe this can be achieved to set our teenagers up for success rather than failure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.200.6.5 (talk) 20:14, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

I have N24 and a POV

 * non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder

It's a bit shocking to see an article that touches upon sleep literature use a.m. and p.m. rather than the 24:00 hour clock. Just saying, from long personal experience. &mdash; MaxEnt 02:14, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * MOS:TIME has no particular preference between 12-hour and 24-hour time. 12-hour tends to be dominant in the United States outside the military, and 24-hour in Europe. -- Beland (talk) 00:29, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Cognitive load
During the second half of the 20th century ...

That's a lot to bite off, mentally, when you're really chasing a different rabbit in the first place. That phrasing is more traditional in articles about the Rolls-Royce Merlin and its later progeny than it is in circadian sociology.

How about "Beginning in the 1950s, ..." instead? &mdash; MaxEnt 02:18, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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Peer Edit
Peer Edit - JParada210

There are many scholarly, reliable sources utilized in this research article. The article is overall well-articulated, accessible to the reader, organized and full of content with reliable and scholarly sources. The sources provide the article with information from between 1993-2022, when the sources were accessed. Some of the articles are from two decades ago and can be viewed as outdated.

The bulleted points below are an example of how the information presented is clear, concise and easily accessible to the reader.


 * Improved attendance and enrollment rates
 * Less sleeping in class
 * Less student-reported depression
 * Fewer student visits to school counselors for behavioral and peer issues
 * More even temperament at home

There are different viewpoints addressed in the article as well, for example, "many public schools in the United States began shifting instructional time earlier than the more conventional bell time". Another specific viewpoint is addressed later in the paragraph, "Advocates of a return to later school start times argue that sleep and school hours should be viewed as a public health issue, citing evidence linking early school start times to widespread sleep deprivation among teenagers as well as a wide array of acute and chronic physical, psychological, and educational problems." The terminology that may be unfamiliar to the general public have appropriate and working links that bring the reader to other Wikipedia articles. "Recent (2011) studies suggest that early school start times disproportionately hurt economically disadvantaged students and may even negatively impact future earning potential of students, offsetting any financial savings to the school system attributed to earlier hours." , the word recent can be dismissed since this study was conducted 13 years ago. "Failure of efforts to delay start times over the years has primarily been due to pushback from community members who fear that a shift to later school hours will be prohibitively expensive and/or disrupt after-school sports and other extracurricular schedules, student jobs, daycare arrangement, teacher training, or time for homework", is another viewpoint addressed in the article. However, this sentence is a bit lengthy and can be addressed in two separate thoughts. "In the past two decades, numerous health, educational, and civic leaders are calling for a return to later, healthier school start times, including former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the National Sleep Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. " the sources are used appropriately and the information provided is well-worded. Foundations and the Institute of Health are mentioned for additional viewpoints related to the start school later movement. "In spring 2013 the Mayo Clinic updated its online information about teen sleep to recognize grassroots efforts to start school at later times in sync with the internal clocks of adolescents, this is good practice to keep research articles updated with any changes and/or additional findings in new studies." Jparada210 (talk) 13:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)