Recess is not a luxury for school children, but a necessary part of how they learn, grow and stay healthy, according to a ...

A message from a leading pediatrician's group issued a warning to schools that unstructured play, like recess, needs to be ...

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

Recess is an essential part of a child's school day that should never be taken away as punishment if a kid misbehaves or has poor academic performance, the American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday.

We’ve all seen what happens when children don’t get their wiggles out: Grocery store meltdowns, classroom outbursts and many tears. We all know the solution is simple: Children need time to play. As ...

"OK, so I am the king. My rules are no swirlies, no spikes, and only the king can call story!” Does that sentence make sense to you? It’s a scene from the essential recess game of four square! But ...

In Florida, kids in a second grade class were told to walk laps during recess after no one confessed to taking money from a classmate. In Kentucky, a first grader who hadn’t been paying attention in ...

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 ...