As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- At a time when the number of children participating in physical education classes is on the decline, Purdue University professors are calling on schools to make "Phys Ed" a ...

Simon Cooper receives funding from the Waterloo Foundation, Rosetrees Trust, Stoneygate Trust and Education Endowment Foundation. There were 45,000 fewer hours of physical education (PE) delivered in ...

Huffing through yet another long run together, my friend and I got to talking about how unlikely it was that the two of us had, one, met at the gym, and two, were now training for a marathon. Like the ...

The vast majority of school boards say they are meeting legal requirements, in a report set to be presented to the State ...

Student fitness rates at Connecticut public schools had been stable for over a decade. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring 2020, they went into free fall. Four years later, they’re still ...

If you reside in a household that earns less than $50,000 annually, you are far less likely to be active than those in wealthier homes. That’s the finding of the most recent report from the Sports & ...

Parents who home-school their children may think putting them into organized sports and physical activities keeps them fit, but Rice University researchers say young people need more. Faculty at the ...