More Solid Evidence on the Value of Recess

Posted by Chip on March 20, 2009

A wonderful blog to link to from this one is Rae Pica’s “The Pica Perspective.” Just click on the blog’s name to the right, under “Blogs I Like,” and find her February 27, 2009, entry. In it, she notes the flurry of research and press about the positive influence of recess on school behavior and [...]

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Hope in the Woods

Posted by Chip on April 29, 2008

If you’ve been around in education for a while, you certainly have seen the cycling of educational trends from those that favor a more child-centered, scaffolding, developmental point of view of learning (like myself and many of you who may frequent this blog) and those who believe in a more rigorous, back-to-basics, paper and pencil, [...]

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