For high school students balancing academics, homework, athletics and a part-time job, it can be a challenge to clock the 8.5 hours of sleep teens need -- and make it to school in time for the 7:30 a.m. bell.Mary Hamaker, founder of the Massachusetts chapter of Start School Later, is on a mission to help adolescents get enough sleep by rolling back school start times. It is a change she says would increase academic performance and reduce risk behaviors, depression and anxiety. [...]
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