A Chicago-area school will now join the ranks of hundreds of other schools across the country that have adopted a tiny but powerful revision in their schedule: a later start time for classes. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., will push classes back 25 minutes, to 8:30 a.m., starting in August 2016. Following the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a handful of other groups, the school board voted to approve the change Monday. “There are three main reasons why we wanted to start our day later,” Stevenson principal Troy Gobble explains in an announcement video. First of all, he says, “we’ve been looking at the research on teenage sleep. The AAP, which is a...
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