You won’t find swings, slides or a kickball field outside Rhawnhurst School. Instead, the elementary school’s “playground” is a vast expanse of barren blacktop with just a lone basketball hoop.

NEWARK -- Sports4Kids, which operates in about 170 schools in eight cities across the U.S., and which now hopes to expand into Newark and several other urban New Jersey districts, uses recess play to ...

"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 ...

When the Ravens host an event that involves competitive school-yard games, it is hard to figure out who is having more fun – the children or the Raven players. The rules of age go out the window, and ...

CLEVELAND — From four square and tug-of-war, to bounce houses and race cars, Recess Cleveland is on a mission to highlight the importance of good old-fashioned fun. "Recess Cleveland builds pop-up ...