The school day will be 20 minutes longer in the coming 2019-20 school year in North Little Rock School District elementary schools as a way to provide more time for classroom instruction and recess.

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 ...

Recess, for most children, is synonymous with freedom. A break from class that has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with play. For children with autism, the playground can be an ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ben Bowman was close to despondent. After coming home from kindergarten one day last school year, ...

Ben Bowman was close to despondent. After coming home from kindergarten one day last school year, he told his mom, Nicole, that his class hadn’t been having its second recess period. He assumed it was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Students and teachers in New York City public schools will now begin winter recess on Dec. 23, after teachers pushed the Department of Education (DOE) to make the Monday an ...

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 ...