Ten "bicycle desks" have replaced traditional models in Sara Kurtz's classroom at the K-8 school in Green Oaks, allowing students to exercise as they learn and helping them be more attentive.

A Lincoln High School student proudly presents their refurbished desk. Photo by Ross Porter Yonkers woodshop teacher Ross Porter repairs worn desks and offers them for free to a host of deserving kids ...

Stand2Learn's desks are now used by more than 100,000 kids in all 50 states and 13 countries. McCann said he'd heard of Benden's research and met him two years ago at a trade show.

New research found that standing desks in classrooms can help students with weight control. A two-year study of students in 24 classrooms at three schools found a "statistically significant" decrease ...

Some students in Cheryl Johnson's second-grade classroom were always standing, and others knelt on the floor. Some, when sitting at their desks, would lie across the top. It wasn't good for their ...

Some students in Cheryl Johnson's second-grade classroom were always standing, and others knelt on the floor. Some, when sitting at their desks, would lie across the top. It wasn't good for their ...

For the current study, researchers focused on standing desks used in first through sixth grades. Students in the studies were around eight to 12 years old, on average, and the studies ranged in ...