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FALL RIVER – As educators learn more about the link between social and emotional behaviors and classroom performance, the School Department is proposing two new programs to improve student performance…

SALT LAKE CITY — Some Utah schools are taking steps to change the way recess works and makes better use of time – to help kids learn to get along…

Ask any teacher to identify these students: The child who should be focusing on a math lesson, but instead is wondering whether her parents will fight again tonight, with words…

A blue-ribbon panel of experts selected social entrepreneurs who are tackling the world's most intractable problems. Playworks Founder and CEO Jill Vialet is one of them. 

By Stephanie Pappas When Deborah Gilboa's second-oldest son Nadav started coming home from first grade with discipline warnings from his teacher, Gilboa and her husband were perplexed. Nadav, who had…

Play matters but too many schools don’t give kids a chance to enjoy themselves. Here’s a story about a school that had no recess for kids, until a teacher showed…

SALT LAKE CITY — The stars, bullies, sidekicks and loners joined other playground personalities in coming together during recess at Lincoln Elementary School.They played a new version of kickball —…

Before this week, recess at Salt Lake City’s Lincoln Elementary — like recess at many schools — included arguments, tattling and hurt feelings. This week, it’s literally a different ballgame,…

Ask a young child, “How was school today?” and you’re likely to hear about recess. My son is 7 years old, and like many children his age, recess is the…