Spending more time on test prep at the expense of recess actually harms students’ cognitive development and academic achievement. Studies show that recess and other scheduled physical activity breaks ...

It’s different from a physical education class, or after-school sports, because it’s entirely unstructured, Danks said. Ramstetter said the concept of recess remains important through high ...

So there's a longstanding debate about whether middle schoolers should have recess like they did in elementary school or whether they should, instead, be treated more like high schoolers.

Sedentary time was defined as 100 counts/min. Longitudinal data were analysed using three-level (time, child, school) multilevel analyses, stratified by sex and cohort, and adjusted for potential ...