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Resources: TED Talks – Why School Should Start Later For Teens

01/29/2018
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Wendy Troxel, a sleep researcher who specializes in behavioral treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders, discusses the sleeping problem teens face in this TED talk.

According to Wendy, adolescents suffer from lack of sleep due to public policy regarding school start times. She asserts that early school start times deprive teenagers of sleep during the period of their lives when they need it most.

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