Later School Starts: Are Screens to Blame? | Aaron Gifford

Later school start times are spreading across the United States, driven by a new reading of adolescent sleep biology.

In this episode, host Benjamin Trenerry talks to Epoch Times journalist Aaron Gifford about what researchers say about teen body clock shifts and the impact on bedtime.

They also discuss how California, Florida, and individual districts have handled later starts, and what a later bell does to grades, buses, sports, and family mornings.

The role of using devices in the evening is in the mix, including whether they cause bedtime delays or just make a late night even later. Finally, they look at the effect of bell-to-bell phone bans in schools.

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