# Why school should start later for teens

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxManhattanBeach
- Speaker: Wendy Troxel
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_troxel_why_school_should_start_later_for_teens)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Teens don't get enough sleep, and it's not because of Snapchat, social lives or hormones -- it's because of public policy, says Wendy Troxel. Drawing from her experience as a sleep researcher, clinician and mother of a teenager, Troxel discusses how early school start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.

## Lectures

1. [Why school should start later for teens](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/wendy_troxel_why_school_should_start_later_for_teens/b252f2731bf4), 11 min (TED's player)