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Huffington Post
September 29, 2009
School’s Out for… Never? ›
Classrooms are leaking minutes every day because teachers are using precious time resolving conflicts from the playground. And the slow drip, drip, drip every day is adding up — in…
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The Portland Tribune
September 10, 2009
Schools try to reduce playground conflicts — Recess coach is putting the ‘play’ back in playground ›
Recess at many public schools isn’t what it used to be. Many schoolyard games – such as tag – have been discouraged because kids play too rough and the conflicts…
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Boston Globe
September 9, 2009
Revamped Recess Puts Focus on the Physical ›
They would ignore the brightly colored balls left for them on the playground and the hopscotch lines painted on the pavement. Instead, in past years many students at Conservatory Lab…
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NewsHour, PBS
July 24, 2009
During School Recess, New Focus on Playing Nice ›
Recess can be a chaotic, even violent, period during the course of a normal school day. Spencer Michels reports on how one non-profit is showing educators the health, and classroom…
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The New York Times
June 14, 2009
Using Teamwork to Bring Girls Into the Game ›
Tes Siarnacki, a recess coordinator at a school in East Boston, regularly encourages older girls to referee boy-dominated soccer games, and assigns older boys to monitor double Dutch jump rope,…
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The Star-Ledger
May 14, 2009
Nonprofit group uses recess to improve classrooms ›
Sports4Kids, which operates in about 170 schools in eight cities across the U.S., and which now hopes to expand into Newark and several other urban New Jersey districts, uses recess…
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OPB News Portland
April 7, 2009
Learning to Play, An Important Lesson for Schools ›
You know it’s gotten bad for recess when teachers have to ban the most common game around. That was the situation for kids at Hartley Elementary, like 3rd grader, Audrey.
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The Oregonian
April 5, 2009
Portland-area schools look to make recess fun, safe ›
Deadra Hall is holding kids back — literally. Her arms splayed, the assistant principal blocks fifth-graders from entering the crowded playground. She makes them do multiplication tables, count by sixes…
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Oregon Live
April 3, 2009
Rolling out a kinder, gentler recess ›
This week, students at several Portland schools are getting something they may not experience every day — a fun, positive and playful recess.