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Article: GOOD SLEEP HABITS CALLED CRUCIAL FOR YOUNG STUDENTS
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- August 24, 2004
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Poll shows kids need to get to bed earlier
Fourteen years as a first-grade teacher showed Krista Stump the
importance of students having a good night's rest.
"Once in a while I'd have a little one just fall asleep," said
Stump, now principal of Woodland Heights Elementary School in
Greenville.
She would like to see more emphasis placed on good sleep habits,
beyond teachers talking about it to children before they take
achievement tests once or twice a year.
"It's really a good idea for every day of school," she said.
"Every day is important. Every day is building toward those tests."
The National Sleep Foundation, an independent nonprofit in
Washington, D.C., this summer released results ...