Summary#2: Starting high school one hour later may reduce teen traffic accidents.

2. Thsi article is a study from Barbara Philllips. This study was done on a wide range of school districs in Kansas. School hours were delayed for one hour on these school districs. Various positive results amongst teenagers were reported from the study. The percentage of students who got at least eight hours of sleep per weeknight increased significantly from 35.7 percent to 50 percent. Students who got at least nine hours of sleep also increased from 6.3 percent to 10.8 percent. researchers surveyed 9,966 students in a school on year one, which they started every day at 7:30 am high school and at 8:00 am middle school. The next year they were surveyed again, but this time they were starting school at 8:30 am high schol and at 9:00 am middle school. The results of both surveyes were observed and compared. What researchers found out was that students were geting better grades when they get full-time sleep than when they had to wake-up one hour earlier. I think that there is also another way to decrease teen accidents that is alcohol, not only the laack of sleep affects.