On March 11, I attended the Shape Up Illinois convention in Springfield. As a physical education major at Western Illinois University, I traveled with colleagues to promote physical education in ...

BUFFALO, Minn. — This class at Buffalo High School is called Inclusive Physical Education. It brings kids with special needs together with the rest of their peers to do everything from playing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about youth sports under the title: Your Kid's Not Going Pro. In academic subjects such as math, social studies, science ...

Independence, Ore. — The third-grade students in Meg Greiner’s PE class at Independence Elementary School can barely contain themselves as they wait for the previous class to end. With limbs twitching ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Across Nebraska, there are Unified Sports, like bowling, that combine traditional students and students with special needs for a sport outside of school. Lincoln Public Schools ...

DULUTH — Colbin Moen strode off the bus Wednesday ready to clean East High School. The senior, wearing a plastic mask and zooming around the school’s gym on a small Ezyroller scooter, and calling ...

It’s been called the fourth “R” of education: reading, writing, arithmetic and now, aerobics. But the gym class of generation Wii isn’t the same one you probably remember from school. “You hear ...

For some of us, physical education class was a nightmare we would like to forget. We endured the humiliation of getting picked last for teams, the embarrassment of feeling our gangly bodies on display ...

Grace Brown’s schedule at West Potomac High School in northern Virginia is filled with all the usual academics, and she’s packed in Latin, chorus and piano as extras. What she can’t cram into the 8:10 ...

When Aisha Sultan was in school, she hated gym class, and she particularly disliked running outside in the Texas heat. “It was such a forced activity, and sometimes we had to do it as punishment,” ...

School is out, and summer vacation means camp, trips to the pool and running around until dark. That’s good because high childhood obesity rates and lots of “screen time,” means youth exercise is more ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) – Springtime signifies change and at Our Lady of Mercy, the change is drastic. “Since I’m a senior, I thought it would be a great way to end the year with. Something new, ...