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Sleepy teenage brains need school to start later in the morning

  • Written by Kyla Wahlstrom, Senior Research Fellow in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, University of Minnesota
imageTheir hormones mean they still need zzz's even when they're already supposed to be in homeroom.Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com

Millions of high schoolers are fighting with their alarm clocks as they start another academic year. As they struggle to get up early, parents battle to get them out of bed and off to school – a stressful way for...

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