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The pressure on schools to find more instructional time has led many institutions to take those minutes from time previously set aside for recess. The downward trend for recess time doesn’t just stop there though. Research has found that schools located in urban and high-poverty zones often get no recess at all. The Center on Education Policy (CEP) tracks the effects of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy on schooling. In 2007, it surveyed the impact of NCLB on instructional and recess time. It discovered that twenty percent of...

The team behind educational learning toy retailer Click-A-Brick says the Mid-Year Impact Report from the Toy Industry Foundation (TIF) brings a smile to their collective faces and they congratulate the charitable organization for helping nearly 300,000 children in need by providing them with toys and services. This year, according to the recently-released report, the TIF and its national partners have helped more than 7,000 children living on U.S. military bases through its partnerships with Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) Military Services and 64,000 children in foster care through...

The team behind building set company Click-A-Brick says they are pleased to see Amazon has started Amazon Launchpad, a storefront that focuses on products from startup companies and products that got their start on crowdfunding platforms. Amazon Launchpad, which the online retailer began in late July, makes it simple for startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to Amazon shoppers. Companies that participate in Amazon Launchpad benefit from an onboarding process that has been streamlined for them to get started as quickly and effortlessly as possible, customized product pages,...

The team at Click-A-Brick have heaped praise on a new prosthetic limb design that incorporates building block toy elements into it to facilitate children’s ability to play. The limb, called the Iko and designed by Carlos Arturo Torres, is meant to be equal parts functional and fun for children with disabilities. Torres created the Iko for his Master’s degree in product design and it won a Core77 design award for him. The limb was created in partnership with Lego’s Future Lab and CIREC, a center in Columbia that focuses on...

The Click-A-Brick crew, retailers of educational toys, say a psychologist who has condemned ‘unboxing’ videos online is probably overreacting to the recent fad, although they do caution that such videos should be watched together with parents and used as a learning experience for both children and parents. Australian psychologist Justin Coulson, in a recent article on The New Daily website, said he believes ‘unboxing’ videos of children’s toys on YouTube can have a potentially negative effect on children, as the videos go beyond just a 30-second commercial and essentially become...

A recent column in the New York Times by Jane E. Brody entitled “Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children,” has the team at educational learning toy company Click-A-Brick shaking their collective heads over the statistics about how much time children spend interacting with electronic devices and how badly it disrupts their development. In the column, Brody cites the 2013 policy statement on “Children, Adolescents, and the Media,” by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which in turn cites statistics from a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study: “The average...

The team at building block toy company Click-A-Brick is praising the new platform, Fitzroy Toys, as a tool that can potentially benefit both independent toy companies and toy retailers alike. Fitzroy Toys is essentially an online marketplace where independent toy companies can register and give information about their products and their available inventory and toy retailers can register and browse through the toys to help them decide which ones they would be interested in carrying in their stores. This eliminates much of the in-person visiting and pitching that has to...

The team behind educational toy Click-A-Brick say they are aware of and concerned by challenges outlined by a recently released global toy market report by Daedal Research entitled Global Toys Market - Opportunities and Forecasts: 2015 Edition. The report says among the challenges faced by the global toy industry is smartphone usage. The report says there is an increasing trend among parents to replace toys in a child’s hands with a smartphone. Between the growing number of games and apps directed specifically at children and their mobility, parents can be...

The documentary Web Junkie, by filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, highlights the harmful effects that screen addiction can have on children and teenagers. It shows how the youth of China can get hooked on video games and social media. Some of them play for dozens of hours at a time, often without any breaks. Chinese experts have come to classify this phenomenon as a clinical disorder. Click-A-Brick Co-Founder Jason Smith calls attention to the images represented in the documentary. “I was worried about what I saw,” Smith said. “There’s...

The team behind learning toy company Click-A-Brick are encouraging parents to look for sustainable ways to discard their children’s old toys rather than just throwing them away in the garbage. A recent article on the Treehugger website said that Americans purchase $18 billion worth of toys annually and also revealed that more than 40% of the toys purchased over the holiday season are broken by spring the following year. As approximately 90% of toys on the market are made of plastic, discarded toys mean a lot of plastic is being...