Educational Toy Company Founders Lament The Reduction Of Recess Time
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...
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