--- --- # It's Time to Rethink Recess by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s time to rethink recess. Here’s a plan.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/01/509724975/recess-gets-a-makeover) By Sophia Boyd at _NPR_ **2\.** [**The war on drugs has succeeded — at making drug traffickers ruthlessly efficient.**](http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/30/14346766/drug-war-failure-evolution) By German Lopez in _Vox_ **3\.** [**Tech’s next billion-dollar company might come from Detroit, not Silicon Valley.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/the-next-big-unicorn-wont-come-from-silicon-valley-2017-1) By Tory Green in _Business Insider_ **4\.** [**How your heartbeat could be your password.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/using-your-heartbeat-password-180961952/) By Emily Matchar in _Smithsonian_ **5\.** [**Fight fast money and short-term thinking: Dump the earnings call.**](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-ways-companies-can-fight-back-against-short-term-investors-2017-01-30) By Tim Koller and Rebecca Darr at _CBS MarketWatch_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: It's Time to Rethink Recess ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4656488/its-time-to-rethink-recess/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4656488/its-time-to-rethink-recess/"},"headline":"It's Time to Rethink Recess","datePublished":"2017-02-01T17:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:07.177Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4656488/its-time-to-rethink-recess/","keywords":["Innovation","Detroit","Earnings","war on drugs","Password"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4656488/its-time-to-rethink-recess/","name":"It's Time to Rethink Recess"}}]}] ```