Our panel, "Raise the Bar for Healthy Schools" was moderated by Chelsea Clinton with panelists, Dr. Dwayne Proctor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Pete Shankle, Alliance Healthy Schools Champion; Anita Rao, Alliance Youth Advisory Board Member; Dr. Howell Wechsler, Division Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Reed Alexander, Actor.
http://clintonfoundation.org/healthmatters
Often overlooked are LATER SCHOOL START TIMES. With many of high schools now starting in the 7 o'clock hour, and bus runs beginning at 5 or 6, school hours are out of sync w/teen sleep needs and well-recognized in the medical community as being both counterproductive and dangerous to health, safety, learning, & equity. Politics & misunderstanding have made local change difficult, even though later starts would probably do more to improve health & welfare of more kids than any other single reform
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