Children will get extra hour in bed as schools sign up to performance tests

Tens of thousands of schoolchildren are to take part in classroom trials to test whether findings in neuroscience can boost standards in education.

The studies, the first of their kind in the world, aim to create a firm evidence base for simple, low-cost practices that could be adopted by teachers to improve learning.

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The new EEF projects received further media coverage. See below;

• Major study of teenage sleep patterns aims to assess impact on learning (Guardian)
• Experiment will show whether teenagers perform better – after a lie-in (Independent)
• Teenagers to start school at 10am in Oxford University sleep experiment (Telegraph)
• Teenagers to sleep late for neuroscience (TES)
• Thousands of pupils to take part in trial to see if a later start will make a difference (Daily Mail)
• Trial will test if longer lie-ins lead to better GCSE results(FT)