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Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

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CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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What the Boom in Kids’ Smartwatches Reveals About Modern Parenting

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It’s not why Tim Huber, principal at Harris Creek Elementary School, part of North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System, is seeing more and more children in the early grades show up to school wearing smartwatches. “It The psychology of fear—it’s extremely powerful,” says Huber, the elementary school principal. “We