Date: Jan 2, 2013 7:10 PM Author: Jerry P. Becker Subject: A
Long Winter's Nap From Connect [College of Education + Human
Development], University of Minnesota, Volume 7, No. 1, pp.
18-19. Winter 2013. See A Long Winter's Nap Less than 20 years
ago, discoveries about teen sleep began changing school start
times in Minnesota. Now it's a national movement. By Gayla Marty
One morning in 1996, Kyla Wahlstrom [see
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/CAREI/people/KWahlstrom.html ] got a
call from a local superintendent. His school board had just
decided to change the high school start time from 7:15 to 8:30
the next fall, only months away. Emerging research on profound
differences in teen sleep patterns was so strong that the board
believed a later start time could help their students. The
superintendent called Wahlstrom because she directs the U's
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI),
which examines new things happening in schools. [See Wahlstrom
admits she was skeptical. But Edina went through with