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 ...

There was a time when after-school activities meant riding bikes, shooting hoops in the backyard or even a neighborhood game of hide-and-seek that went on until dusk. In today’s complex world, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s “question-of-the-week” is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used when teaching physical education? This post “wraps up” a longer series of questions and ...

Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers. By Matt Richtel Over the last two decades, technology companies ...