What Caltech/MIT are encouraging is repetition with continued study. Repetition cements short term memory into long term, ref "Brain Rules" book. In order for t

What Caltech/MIT are encouraging is repetition with continued study. Repetition cements short term memory into long term, ref "Brain Rules" book. In order for this process to work efficiently, good sleep is required. Hence how the 2 are related. What we humans fail to see is that running out of hours in a day to study (work et al) should not equal to cutting back on sleep. Cutting back on sleep is a quick & dirty approach but has its negatives which the article pointed out. If only we could see our consequences of these actions using some monitoring tool/data I'm certain many folks would be in a better position to balance/optimize their study and sleep patterns. So, both the article and these schools can be right ;-)