While the severance procedure in itself is fascinating and twists the idea of “work-life balance” into outright “work-life division,” viewers can soon find out that this is just the facade of the ...

Rebecca London spends a lot of time observing school play yards. While doing so, the community-engaged researcher and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz has seen ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

Elementary school students in Florida are now guaranteed 20 minutes of recess each day — something many kids lacked before a new state law took effect during the summer. Florida’s law and similar ...

Several years ago, a team of sociologists flew from California to an East Coast school to observe the kindergarteners’ recess for their research. The team waited on the playground, but the children ...

ATLANTA — A bill that would make recess mandatory for elementary schools all across Georgia has been signed into law. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the law Monday afternoon. The law requires school districts ...

A perfect storm has gathered over America’s schoolyards. High-stakes testing, fear of litigation, budget crunches, and just plain ignorance have coalesced into a toxic mix that is reducing and ...

Installing Cabinet picks without Senate vote can be constitutional, experts say By urging the incoming GOP Senate majority to embrace recess appointments to install members of his Cabinet, Republican ...

Recess is a lot like school lunch: Some kids get lasagna with an organic green salad, some get a burrito out of a box, and some do without. Like lunch, who gets recess—and who gets good recess—is ...