A quality recess will reestablish mental equilibrium and focus, a need of every student, kindergarten through 12th grade, ...

That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics released updated guidance urging schools to protect recess, citing benefits for kids' ...

Add recess to reading, writing and arithmetic says a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP.) The pediatricians believe that recess can be as important to a child's overall development as ...

Florida legislators nixed part of a larger education bill that would have taken away the mandatory recess period. The provision, which has since been removed, would have allowed schools to break up ...

A new law in Oklahoma will double the minimum amount of time elementary school students will spend at recess starting next ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Parents in DeKalb County are advocating for longer recess times for their children, expressing frustration at some schools reducing recess to the 15-minute minimum. During a ...

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 ...