The Power of Flexible School Start Times: Longitudinal Associations with Sleep, Health, and Academic Performance

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• C14 Later school start backs it up

  Before/after study in two Swiss secondary schools (median age 14): with a flexible start model, 95% chose to start later, median start 38 minutes later, more school-day sleep, and higher mathematics and English scores. Abstract only; how scores were measured and the size of the gain are not stated; no control schools.