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 ...

Tennessee lawmakers recently passed a law to provide more recess time for K-5 students. (Photo: Getty Images) As a former Metro Nashville Public School teacher, I know firsthand what it is like when ...

Georgia does not have any requirements for recess: Before No Child Left Behind in 2001, recess times for U.S. elementary school students varied, from an hour to 90 minutes a day in the 1980s into the ...

My 7-year-old son headed inside from the bus, only to stop abruptly, pivoting right back out. “Going to play outside. We didn’t get recess today,” he shouted back at me. After a bit of digging, I ...

Organizers of an online petition are asking for longer recess for Lafayette Parish public schools. The petition, on the change.org website, had 181 signatures as of Friday. It was started about a week ...

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 ...

It's recess time at Ruby Bridges Elementary School and a third-grader is pummeling a plastic tetherball with focused intensity. He's playing at one of more than a half-dozen recess play stations on ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Beacon Hill lawmakers are considering a bill that would make 20 minutes of recess a day mandatory at all Massachusetts schools. But what if recess was a time period with a plan and a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — This is the time of year when people try to pressure lawmakers to vote for or against certain bills, but a few of the advocates are still in grade school. Several elementary school ...

When their young kids came home squirming and complaining about a lack of school recess time, a pair of Florida moms set out on a mission to ensure that every elementary school in their state allowed ...

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.