School starting time for young adolescents (Wolfson et al., 2007)
Adolescents require about 9.2 hours of sleep (Wolfson, Spaulding, Dandrow & Baroni, 2007, p. 194). The time that students start school can affect their amount of night sleep and level of daytime sleepiness. This study examined sleep-wake patterns of 205 young adolescents attending two urban, New England, public, middle schools…