Synchronicity has brought one of the nation’s great playground designers to Chattanooga at a time when Rachel Bush, Kathryn Truman and Morgan Garner commented on the vital importance of recess to a ...

The Lockhart Independent School District board voted unanimously Monday to launch an initiative for the 2026–2027 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 ...

Advocates believe recess is just as beneficial as classroom time for children's learning. Increased attendance, better ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) —The recess moms are speaking out as one bill in front of the Florida Senate aims to change the wording in the current recess law. Florida Public Elementary Schools currently ...

Some large urban school districts that serve low-income populations and students of color did away with recess entirely; new schools in some cities were even built without outdoor play areas. Most ...

FOLSOM, Calif. – — Tchaikovsky at Carnegie Hall, Chopin at Manchester’s Concert Hall – and Nathan Zhang at Theodore Judah Elementary school in California. You won’t find the audience dressed in ball ...

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 ...