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Nov. 3 issue — Shortly after Rebecca Lamphere bought her new house in Virginia Beach, Va., she began to notice that it was quiet—too quiet. Lamphere had expected to hear the shouts of children at recess from the Parkway Elementary School next door. Instead she learned that at Parkway, recess was a thing of the past. Lamphere was troubled. Though her own daughter attends parochial school, three years ago she got recess restored to Parkway—and to every elementary school in the state. Now other parents, physicians and educators around the country are taking up Lamphere’s campaign. In the last five years, as pressure to show early academic achievement has mounted, experts estimate that nearly 20% of the nation’s elementary schools have dropped recess in favor of extra classroom time. But as concerns about childhood obesity grow, activists are demanding that schools bring recess back—providing kids with a minimum of 15 minutes of free play each day...
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