ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Society of Behavioral Medicine, Start Middle and High Schools at 8:30 a.m. or Later to Promote Student Health and Learning, November 2017
- NCAA Sport Science Institute, Healthy Sleep for Student-Athletes: A Guide for Athletics Departments and Coaches, March 1, 2016
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Recommends that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. for the sake of sleep, health, and learning, August 25, 2014.
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Recommends that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. for the sake of sleep, health, and learning, April 2017
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Schools Start Too Early, archived: Recommends that middle and high schools push back start times to 8:30 a.m. or later, August 6, 2015
- American Medical Association, Encourages middle and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. for adolescent wellness, June 14, 2016.
- Westport Pediatricians from Bay Street Pediatrics, Village Pediatrics, and Willows Pediatrics, Changing Westport middle and high school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later is a necessary public health measure, March 28, 2017.
- Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (“CIAC”), Position statement: switching to later school start times does create a more optimal learning environment and improves student achievement for high school athletes. The CIAC will continue to offer student-athletes the same opportunities for sports participation as it has historically done regardless of individual school district decisions on school starting times.
- The New York Times, The Science of Adolescent Sleep, May 22, 2017.
- Education Commission of the States, Later Education Start Times in Adolescence: Time for Change , May 6, 2014.
- National PTA. Resolution on Healthy Sleep for Adolescents, July 5, 2017.
- American Psychological Association, While implementation may be complex, particularly when a change would bring a school’s schedule out of sync with neighboring systems, delaying school start times so that adolescents begin their instructional day later provides numerous benefits to the students and their broader community alike, 2014.
- American Sleep Association, Middle school and high school should not start before 08:00. A time closer to 09:00 or later would be preferable, February 7, 2016.
- CA State Senator Anthony Portantino, Research Related to SB 328, Which Requires All Public Middle and High Schools in California to Start at 8:30 A.M. or Later, November 19, 2012.
- Psychology Today, Sports Secret Weapon: Sleep, November 19, 2012.
- National Start School Later website: www.startschoollater.net
