"OK, so I am the king. My rules are no swirlies, no spikes, and only the king can call story!” Does that sentence make sense to you? It’s a scene from the essential recess game of four square! But ...

Florida legislators nixed part of a larger education bill that would have taken away the mandatory recess period. The provision, which has since been removed, would have allowed schools to break up ...

For years, as standardized tests took on ever greater importance in Massachusetts public schools, recess seemed to pay the price, shrinking or even disappearing in some communities. But now, with an ...

The Senate has its work cut out for it next week after Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., canceled part of the holiday recess to schedule a vote on the national security supplemental package.

Several parents say Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) removed unsafe playground equipment from an elementary school months ago and have been slow to replace it, leaving students with little to ...

KENMORE, N.Y. - A local school has decided to make recess a mandatory part of the schedule everyday. Students in grades K-5 will have recess for 15-minutes everyday at St. John the Baptist School in ...

I have now had the chance to read the Justice department memo from the Office of Legal Counsel explaining (after the president had already made his controversial recess appointments) why they’re ...

My post last night was based on the widely-reported but seemingly incorrect claim that the Senate was currently in recess, allowing the President to make a recess appointment to fill the vacancy on ...

Angela Browning is not a politician. She’s a paralegal and the mom of three boys in elementary school in Florida’s Orange County school district. When I asked her for her title, she told me to call ...

Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Dr. Donald M. Berwick. It's a name as likely to incite a political brawl in Washington as it is to attract a blank stare almost anywhere ...