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Lafayette Elementary School has a newly renovated playground, access to a nearby park and athletic field, and roughly 900 energetic young students. So why have kids been cooped up inside during recess ...

Police in Inwood are being retrained on pursuit protocols after officers in an NYPD cruiser drove through a closed street where elementary school students were holding recess, Gothamist has learned.

Rebecca London spends a lot of time observing school play yards. While doing so, the community-engaged researcher and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz has seen ...