educational course related to the physique of the human body
On June 6, the North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) approved new academic content standards for K–12 Healthful Living. The standards determine the content that the state thinks students…
During the monthly meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education on May 2, representatives from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) finally unveiled the third and final draft…
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction posted the second draft of proposed Healthful Living standards on Dec. 14. The new draft incorporates aspects of the John Locke Foundation’s recommended…
A new report on Florida’s K-12 education system describes the main tenets of Critical Social Justice, discusses how this ideology finds its way into K-12 schools, and documents how Florida…
Standards writers have released the first draft of proposed revisions to North Carolina’s Healthful Living standards, which include Physical Education and Health/Sex Ed. The standards writing team could make three…
Last August the State Board of Education approved a 6-month delay in the standards revision timeline for Healthful Living Standards. Under the timeline, the first draft of the new standards…
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will begin revising state health and science standards this year. Given the issues involved, public engagement is critical. To date, however, few citizens…
Online exercise studies?!?! My intern at JLF told me of his online aerobics class at NC State. Then I looked it up, seems like NC State offers multiple online physical…
It was brought to my attention today that, at last week’s Moral Monday protests, one of the issues was cuts to government funded exercise programs for kids. As the protesters…
Swain County Schools has made headlines because boys were wrestling and boxing when they should have been changing clothes in the locker room. A video of the fighting, according to…
There’s a push underway for a new state law that would require high schools to hire a nationally certified athletic trainer if the school fields teams for what are called…
According to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Children play harder and longer when their child-care centers provide portable play equipment such…