When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement

Autor/in	Hinrichs, Peter
Titel	When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 6 (2011) 4, S.486-507 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00045
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Standardized Tests; Academic Achievement; Metropolitan Areas; High School Students; School Schedules; Student Improvement; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Public Schools; Scores; Correlation; Comparative Analysis; Time Factors (Learning); Scheduling; Kansas; Minnesota; Virginia; ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Schulleistung; Ballungsraum; High schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulzeiteinteilung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Korrelation; Disposition; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	A number of high schools across the United States have moved to later bell times on the belief that their previous bell times were too early for the "biological clocks" of adolescents. In this article I study whether doing so improves academic performance. I first focus on the Twin Cities metropolitan area, where Minneapolis and several suburban districts have made large policy changes but St. Paul and other suburban districts have maintained early schedules. I use individual-level ACT data on all individuals from public high schools in this region who took the ACT between 1993 and 2002 to estimate the effects of school starting times on ACT scores. I then employ school-level data on schedules and test scores on statewide standardized tests from Kansas and Virginia to estimate the effects of bell times on achievement for a broader sample. The results do not suggest an effect of school starting times on achievement. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10