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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Is Recess Necessary?

Posted by Chip on December 4, 2007

With all the emphasis on No Child Left Behind from an academic point of view, the educational, social, emotional and physical benefits of good-old-fashioned recess are being compromised as time for outdoor play is shortened or eliminated all together in some elementary schools. In the process, childhood itself gets left behind.
True, more children today need [...]

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