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HANNAH WOLFE traveled to school by air last year. It required precise timing, a skill she honed when she and her friends moved to what they called Rosy — a sprawling apartment complex on Roosevelt Island that doubles as a dorm. All her classes at Marymount Manhattan College were on the Upper East Side, and to get there, she took two buses and a tram that glides 250 feet above the East River and offers postcard views of Midtown Manhattan.
Related Times Topic: Teach for America Enlarge This Image Scott Dalton for The New York Times Will Cullen, a Villanova alum, in class last week at a Houston middle school. Enlarge This Image Scott Dalton for The New York Times Cynthia Rodriguez attended a Teach for America session last week in Houston
Starting the school day earlier may lead to more car accidents involving teenagers, new research suggests. The study, which looked at schools in two cities in Virginia with different start times, found an association between earlier classes and more crashes among sleep-deprived students. “Teenagers need over nine hours sleep a night, and it looks like a large number of teens don’t get sufficient sleep … part of that relates to the time that high schools begin,” said study author Dr.