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Walking through any high school during the first class in the morning, you may find that many students areto keep their heads up. "They're sitting in the classroom, but their heads are at home on their pillows," says Mary Carskadon of Brown Medical School in the US.
Don't blame yourself; blame the clock in your brain. Two decades of research that your bodies are pushing you to stay up at night and sleep into the morning. During the first several weeks of school, students are more likely to get a(n) lack of sleep. In the holidays, most students can sleep over eight hours a night. But during the school day, students on average sleep only about six hours. Students will lose 10 hours of sleep per week that they never from. The lack of sleep may not only be a drag (拖后) on school , but also be related to poor health.
Scientists in the US led research to try to teenagers' clocks back to help them fall asleep earlier. They use a special light in the classroom to try toa reset of the students' biological clock. They found the brain can a chemical that helps sleep. It comes out only in the dark. The research failed at the end. Doctor said that even if the chemical had started, the kids' homework and other activities meant they stayed up at night.
Some schools have reset their school time from 7:25 to 8:30 a.m. to the students. The results were so encouraging that students who had the hour of sleep performed best in tests. Those who lost the hour did worst of all.