It's high time schools taught their charges how to sleep

Gordon Cairns

By Gordon Cairns
Community contribution / September 21, 2017

There is one area of pupils’ lives that is considered to be sacrosanct, yet it impacts on how they learn, perform in exams, feel about themselves and even how much they weigh. Sleep.

As fewer children and teenagers are reported to be getting the required number of hours of shut-eye, isn't it time ...

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