Too much screen time may be detrimental to students, a recent study from the University of California, Los Angeles found. New risk from too much screentime Teens — and everyone else, it seems — spend an unhealthy amount of time sitting, a new survey finds You might want to take this news standing up. A national survey finds that Thirty states require This year for the first time, middle school students in North Carolina are taking all of their final tests on computers. Let’s look at where American schools rank right now when it comes to days in school versus time off. Most reports based on the OECD data make America look comparatively rigorous: American kids spend at least as much time in school as kids in other countries do, and probably more. According to the OECD summary , "A typical U.S. student will attend school for a total of 8,884 hours over nine years to complete primary and lower secondary education, 1,293 hours more than the OECD average." Students in China's primary and secondary schools spend an average of three hours poring over homework every day, twice the global average. We have too much time off, anyway. Not all students are sure the change benefits them. Here are three reasons kids should spend more time in school. According to a story by Juana Summers in NPR's NPREd blog, the UCLA study suggests that sitting in front of screens too much could perhaps impair students' abilities to … Little time for homework and rest, say some, but others say hours worth it Madam Lee Hui Ling's daughter was … Are students spending too much time on CCAs? A recent story in The Atlantic has sparked a lot of discussion about how students can best use their time outside the regular school day. A sleepy student rubs …