COLUMBUS, Ohio — High school students who play club sports and other athletics outside of school may soon be able to skip physical education class under a proposal at the Ohio Statehouse. House Bill ...

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 ...

Studies suggest that physical education curricula can provide health benefits to students, and the Institute of Medicine even recommends schools provide at least 60 minutes a day of ...

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Experimental studies that assessed the effect of quantity-based (ie, increasing the amount of curriculum time allocated to PE) or quality-based (ie, ...

At the beginning of the school year, Mallory Stiff had no idea how to ride a skateboard. But after recently taking a course that included a skateboarding unit at Minnesota State University, she’s not ...

College of Education Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Physical Education, University of South Carolina When I noticed my 12-year-old son was spending about seven hours a day ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding more physical education classes in grades one to nine could help lower the prevalence of obesity among ...

My father gave me a quarter every day before school when I was little so that I could buy myself a snack. But I wouldn’t buy a snack. Instead, I gave the quarter to a classmate, just to get someone to ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers say exercise programs at schools can help with childhood obesity. Rob and Julia Campbell/Stocksy Researchers say a school-based physical activity program in Slovenia has ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Just to give you a heads-up, we’ll be talking about physical fitness today. We’ll touch on topics such as disordered ...