Florida legislators nixed part of a larger education bill that would have taken away the mandatory recess period. The provision, which has since been removed, would have allowed schools to break up ...

Surveys of educators have found up to 86 percent have decreased or taken away students’ recess as a punishment for bad behavior or for academic reasons. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

Ben Bowman was close to despondent. After coming home from kindergarten one day last school year, he told his mom, Nicole, that his class hadn’t been having its second recess period. He assumed it was ...