Kids of all ages need regular breaks from the classroom. Common sense tells us this, and research confirms it. But in many school districts nationwide, recess is losing its place as an integral part ...

Several years ago, a team of sociologists flew from California to an East Coast school to observe the kindergarteners’ recess for their research. The team waited on the playground, but the children ...

Rebecca London spends a lot of time observing school play yards. While doing so, the community-engaged researcher and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz has seen ...

MIDDLETOWN — After an agreement with the Middletown Public Schools teachers union was reached, the standard recess period, which split recreation time during the pandemic into two 10-minute sessions, ...

This article about recess was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. In ...

A KUOW investigation shows that in Seattle Public Schools, poor kids and children of color tend to get much less recess than kids at mostly white, well-off schools. In Seattle, white kids typically ...

Research Scientist (Education and Social Change), Diversity Insitute, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a founding ...