Are students being robbed of their childhood when schools scrap recess for more class time? Elementary school Principal Peter DeWitt, who pens the Finding Common Ground blog on edweek.org, certainly ...

LOWER MAKEFIELD >> Talk about getting wrapped up in your work. As a reward to her students for raising the most money at Makefield Elementary School’s 2nd Annual Rockin’ Recess, Principal Donna ...

Schools nationwide are under growing pressure to add instructional time, and recess is often one of the first things to get squeezed —... Trim Recess? Some Schools Hold On To Child's Play It's recess ...

STOUGHTON – The principal at West Elementary School says the recess program that she implemented last year is organized – not structured – and is not mandatory. The School Committee asked Principal ...

Recess is a lot like school lunch: Some kids get lasagna with an organic green salad, some get a burrito out of a box, and some do without. Like lunch, who gets recess—and who gets good recess—is ...

In Florida, kids in a second grade class were told to walk laps during recess after no one confessed to taking money from a classmate. In Kentucky, a first grader who hadn’t been paying attention in ...

DAYTONA BEACH — A breather from learning during the day is a privilege most Volusia County School Board members, educators, and parents agree kids need as much as they deserve, but what's the right ...

A KUOW investigation shows that in Seattle Public Schools, poor kids and children of color tend to get much less recess than kids at mostly white, well-off schools. In Seattle, white kids typically ...

When Rebecca Julien became the principal of Eliza B. Kirkbride School in 2015, one of the things that she immediately noticed about the K-8 school in the Bella Vista neighborhood was that her students ...