When one of our sons (then a third grader) lost recess privileges for a week last school year, he came home cranky and irritable. As he put it, “Recess is the only time I can actually really play with ...

Elementary school students in Florida are now guaranteed 20 minutes of recess each day — something many kids lacked before a new state law took effect during the summer. Florida’s law and similar ...

A flush of anger had spread across my fifth-grader’s forehead. I had never seen a student more upset in my classroom, and it was all my fault. During my first week of teaching in Finland, I had ...

Is it a good idea to trade literacy and math time to give elementary students more time to play? Virginia Beach City schools–urged on by parents–decided to go for it, hiking the amount of recess the ...

Surveys of educators have found up to 86 percent have decreased or taken away students’ recess as a punishment for bad behavior or for academic reasons. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

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 ...

Several years ago, a team of sociologists flew from California to an East Coast school to observe the kindergarteners’ recess for their research. The team waited on the playground, but the children ...

Rebecca London spends a lot of time observing school play yards. While doing so, the community-engaged researcher and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz has seen ...

WOLFSVILLE — Imagine young children swapping recess for reading time at school. This is actually happening at Wolfsville Elementary School, in the small northwest Frederick County village. Students ...

Collegiate startups looking to strike a chord with investors are being given the opportunity at a national touring music and pitch festival. The Recess Pitch hit Chicago last week with qualifying ...

Professional baseball arrived just in time for recess at Mariemont Elementary School in Arden Arcade on Tuesday. Athletics slugger Brent Rooker and outfielders Lawrence Butler and JJ Bleday stopped by ...