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In 2014, teenager Jill Dos Santos convinced her school in Columbia, Missouri, to push its start time back so students could get more sleep. Armed with research on the adolescent body clock, Santos argued, using evidence, that teenagers have a later release of the 'sleep' hormone melatonin which causes them to sleep late. After heated debate over two months, aided by her peers, officials voted to move the start time at Columbia's four high schools from 7.45am to between 8.55 and 9.10am, giving students an extra hour-plus in the mornings.
Later, hundreds of middle schools and high schools in 41 US states pushed back their start times, and the issue made headlines in American national newspapers and magazines. In the last few years, high schools in Montgomery Country in Maryland, California, Oklahoma, Georgia state and New York have pushed back their first bells, joining early adopters in Connecticut, North Carolina, Kentucky and Minnesota.
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School timings in UAE: To change or not to change?Studies of the change in eight high schools in three states found that the later a school's start time, the better off the students were on mental health, car crash rates, attendance and, in some schools, grades and standardized test scores. In 2013, a London academy has become the first school in Britain to introduce a 10am start after research showed that teenagers do not fully wake up until mid-morning.
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