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 ...

"The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees. But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that ...

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 ...

Summarising the activities of the Secretariat during the period of the Commission’s recess, the PRINCIPAL SECRETARY reported that he had returned with his staff from Lausanne to Jerusalem, Where he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The principal stared across the grassy lawn at the fourth- and fifth-graders, standing masked and six feet apart in a ragged line against a wooden fence. “All right,” Ingrid Bynum called through her ...

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 ...

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 ...