Defending recess

Coming to the defence of recess is a study showing what any elementary teacher could tell you: that children are better students when they have recess. You can read all about it here in the Washington Post, but allow me to call to your attention a few things:

1. it requires more than 15 minutes of recess a day
2. kids least likely to have recess are minorities, in urban public schools, and in the Northeast (and elsewhere)
3. NCLB has cut recess time