[TWSS]

Not just your experience: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/teens-health/CC00019

Your circadian rhythm changes in your teens, and too few schools are willing to work with this rather than against it. The results are sleep-deprived kids doing crap work in school and getting into car accidents like the one mentioned at the start of the HBR article.

[gwern]

I've collected some citations on the topic: http://www.gwern.net/education-is-not-about-learning#school-...

(Too bad that there doesn't seem to be any large authoritative collection of relevant material.)

[peter_l_downs]

This page, and your entire site in general, are very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to compile all of these links, I'll have to start sending them to my teachers :)

[gwern]

Well, it's not finished\; so if you are going to send'em to anyone, might I suggest you pick particularly relevant citations and just link those instead or something like that?

\ You obviously have no way of knowing this but my convention on gwern.net is anything in lower-caps is draft/incomplete, and so I don't link it unless it's extremely relevant (as it was in this case).