American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - AAHPERD

2011 Alliance Scholar Steve Silverman Addresses the Consequences of the New AAHPERD Comprehensive School Physical Activity Survey

Fewer than 20 percent of K-12 schools nationwide provide their students with opportunities to engage in physical activity before, during or after school, according to a survey released in October by the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). Along with art, music and even history, both the study and the pursuit of exercise are being squeezed out of the school day because of deep budget cuts and a heavy emphasis on language arts and math, the two subjects most heavily tested for compliance with federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

To Stephen Silverman and his colleagues in TC’s Movement Science and Education/Kinesiology program, that’s plain wrong-headed thinking. Read the full article