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CBS Minnesota
Reporting: Esme Murphy
April 17, 2012
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A nonprofit group is engineering a recess revolution at schools across the country, including nine in the Twin Cities. The group, called Playworks, believes recess done differently…
April 16, 2012
Promoting positive behavior at school reduces bullying, Mathematica says
In one of the most rigorous scientific trials to find an effect on bullying, researchers from Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University have found that a Playworks recess can transform school climate, paving the…
Oregon Jewish Life Magazine
April 1, 2012
Some of my worst memories are standing on the elementary school playground hoping to be picked for games. I used to dread recess and would ask the teacher if I…
March 5, 2012
Playworks is featured in a new book called The Non Nonprofit, which shares how business principles can (and should) be applied to nonprofits. The books is by Steve Rothschild, who left…
February 21, 2012
Co-Chair Fran Mainella wants you to join the US Play Coalition
February 8, 2012
We've launched our twenty-third city this year!
Houston Chronicle
By Patricia Kilday Hart, Staff Writer
February 5, 2012
In the middle of the playground at Stepping Stones Elementary stands an individual who has been identified to me as the linchpin in the operation of this Alief-area charter school.…
Mountain View Voice
Monta Loma program stresses educational value of schoolyard games
February 4, 2012
By: Nick Veronin, Mountain View Voice Staff Behavior referrals are down and kids are more focused in class, thanks to a new program that brings greater structure to recess at…