Recess, and unstructured play, are essential for children’s development—both in building communication and leadership skills, ...

Public school students across Tennessee would get a minimum of 40 minutes of recess each day, under a new bill up for debate ...

When children were organizing their own games of soccer and basketball, the games were apparently 'not inclusive, fair or fun ...

Allen Elementary School students play during recess. The school is one of three in Wichita that’s experimenting with a new approach to recess that eases up on rules and lets kids play more freely.

Advocates of "risky recess" say fewer restrictions on what elementary school kids can do when they go out to play is good for a child's development and should be a routine part of the school day.

management all children, including the more timid, were to be able to play at these areas. In addition, altered recess time management, by using a recess schedule which allowed a maximum of two ...

Allen is one of three Wichita elementary schools experimenting with a new kind of recess that eases up on rules and lets kids play more freely. The approach, sometimes called “risky play ...