Jessica Kohnen Karaska, Baltimore Executive Director, recently spoke at Ignite Baltimore #5.
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U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2009
Stuart Brown says play makes kids happier, healthier, and better students, but how can parents make that happen in a stressed-out, overscheduled world?
New York Times
September 2, 2009
Here on the balmy central coast of California and all across the country, kids are heading back to school. The classes are larger, the No Child Left Behind mandates remain in place and, despite advice from the nation’s secretary of health and human services and others, recess and physical education (not to mention art and music instruction) have in many schools been cut back or eliminated. While most of our backpack-laden kids are eager to catch up with friends they haven’t seen over the summer, the general feeling is that “playtime is over.”
The Huffington Post
August 27, 2009
While summer is a great time for kids to get outside, play, and be active, this fun shouldn't end when school starts. In fact, studies have shown that kids who are given the opportunity to take a break from their hectic academic schedules actually develop and perform better than those who go without.
The New York Times
February 23, 2009
The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it. New research suggests that play and down time may be as important to a child’s academic experience as reading, science and math…
HealthDay and The Washington Post
January 26, 2009
As a pediatric resident in a hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Romina M. Barros sat in on a regular first-grade class at a local elementary school. Classes started at 8:30 in the morning, lasting till noon, with one 10-minute break during which children were not allowed to talk or move from their chairs.
Principal Magazine
November 12, 2008
Ask any elementary school principal what the toughest part of the day is, and most will answer with one word: recess. That’s because recess is when most trouble starts.
The New York Times Magazine
February 17, 2008
On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play — not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times.
Washington Post
November 21, 2009
A debate over the value of make-believe and other games in preschool classes is deepening as more states fund programs
