Various bits and pieces about teenage sleep deprivation:
"Teens who slept 9+ hours on school nights
reported much more positive moods than their peers."
National Sleep Foundation - Sleep in America Poll - Teenagers (2006).
"Just one in five adolescents get an optimal nine hours of sleep on school
nights." "Fifteen percent of drivers in 10th to 12th grades drive drowsy at
least once a week."
A list from 1998 with advice and facts on Teenage Sleep Deprivation.
Says that 20% of students fall asleep in school.
A Harris Poll from 2003 reports that 12% of high school students "often fall
asleep during class."
More information of the effects of lack of sleep on teenagers in an article in the journal Pediatrics:
"In this article we review availablescientific knowledge about
normal sleep changes in adolescents ... the factors
associated with chronicinsufficient sleep, the effect of
insufficient sleep on a varietyof systems and functions, and the
primary sleep disorders ...."
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/115/6/1774 (June 6,
2005).
SF Chronicle article with an innovative study by a Berkeley High School
student, "The Berkeley teenage researchers reported that 6 in 10 students at
the 3, 200-student school felt affected by the lack of sleep."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/10/BAGDPD5SE61.DTL
(June 10, 2005).