[1] Disadvantaged kids ... between black children and their white peers. [2] Perhaps most important, recess allows children to design their own games, to test their abilities, to role-play ...

"This generation's kids would take that, but they're just not getting the opportunity." Reclaiming recess The result, experts say, is children who come into school without good play skills.

Ask a group of kids about their favorite part of the school day and many will talk about something that happened at recess. Maybe they finally made it across the monkey bars. Maybe somebody kicked ...

Elementary school students in Florida are now guaranteed 20 minutes of recess each day — something many kids lacked before ... to give children a chance to play. Last year, Rhode Island enacted ...

The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues One result of allowing kids more time for recess, he said, has been increased instructional time “because the kids come ...

Several years ago, a team of sociologists flew from California to an East Coast school to observe the kindergarteners’ recess ... kids have access to it. Specialists think the opportunity to ...

The city has hired “recess coaches” to teach kids how to play nicely. The Department of Education has forked over $425,000 in taxpayer money to the California-based nonprofit Playworks since ...

In the control group, black students spent an average ... In many schools in Australia, for instance, kids aren’t allowed to play at recess if they don’t have a hat to protect them from ...

Recess Rocks teaches teachers how to help students resolve these conflicts -- all while engaging in creative play. It has made a difference. "Kids learn through play" said Karin Wetherill ...