Two PE classes are separated by a thin wall at Mount Vernon’s LaVenture Elementary School. In the first, a boy kicks a rubber ball across the room, along with his loose sneaker, to shouts and laughing ...

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For students from Meraki High School outside Sacramento, California, staying fit during the coronavirus pandemic has been as easy as playing solitaire. Since the school shutdown this spring, students ...

Adding more physical education classes in grades one to nine could help lower the prevalence of obesity among school-aged children, according to a study published in Obesity. From 2011 to 2018, ...

As hopes increase that life will soon get back to normal, there's one pandemic ritual that a lot of kids and parents are going to miss. A year ago, as the coronavirus began to rage, fitness instructor ...

The next time you watch your kid's gym class, you may not see students doing laps and playing dodgeball. Try juggling and geocaching instead. As the state moves to teach fitness and nutrition to a new ...

Jasmine Stiles has been teaching PE at Carmel Valley Middle School for the last 19 years. Her goal this year as the San Dieguito Union High School District PE coordinator is to dispel the myths in the ...

Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put a gadget on every ...