It's one of our great cultural mysteries: why we wake up teenagers -- the same one who sleep past noon on the weekends -- at six in the morning to get on a bus, and then we ask them to learn!
Are your kids getting enough sleep? We look into the biology of adolescent sleep and see how some school systems have started using later start times to improve academic performance.
And later, we take a look at a new study suggesting a link between sleep deprivation and brain size.
GUESTS:
- Daniel McNally - Medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the UConn Health Center
- Terra Ziporyn Snider, Ph.D. - Executive Director and Co-Founder of Start School Later, Inc.
- Aaron Harper - Principal at East Ridge High School in Woodbury, MN
- Robert O’Donnel - Principal at Wilton High School in Wilton, CT
- Claire Sexton - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford
This show originally aired on September 8, 2014.
