Before developmental psychologist Susan Engel began research on her 2026 book, American Kindergarten: Dispatches from the First Year of School, it had been years since she’d spent time in a public ...
Why Recess Matters: The Importance of Unstructured Play and How to Fight for It, by Catherine Ramstetter (Parenting Press, 272 pp., $21.99) Youth sports, once the redoubt of aimless childhood play, ...
The House of Representatives is heading home and won't be back in session until the midterms. Speaker Mike Johnson called an early recess after members passed a bipartisan sanctions bill against ...
CAMBRIDGE — A handful of times a day, groups of kids at the Baldwin School trudge across the crosswalk to the Alden Play Area to kick balls on a blacktop or scale a spiderweb of ropes to a long, ...
Experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend multiple daily breaks of at least 20 minutes. The amount of recess students receive varies widely by state, school district and grade level.
Legislators and experts are running to save recess for American children after years of decline in the unstructured free time students are allowed during school hours. Pennsylvania is the latest state ...
A group of House Democratic lawmakers is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately and cancel an upcoming break to address what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed ...
PHOENIXVILLE — Descendants of Henry and Catherine Detwiler, who, along with their 12 children, met to celebrate their 130th Reunion at Camp Hill School, Beaver Farm, Phoenixville, on Saturday, August ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro signs legislation guaranteeing 30 minutes of recess to elementary students
The governor signed a bill Wednesday that was approved by the state legislature as part of the 2026-27 budget. File: Kindergarten students playing at Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School (Emma ...
Young students in Pennsylvania will have recess every single school day starting next year after Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a bill Wednesday. Gov. Shapiro was at the playground on Sept. 9 at the North ...
There’s a law now in effect in Oklahoma that gives elementary students more time for recess, but schools are finding different ways to fit the extra minutes into the school day. School is underway ...
Schools across the country have steadily reduced recess during the past two decades, often to make more time for math and reading instruction. A growing body of research suggests that strategy may be ...
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