PE for Children: A Physical Education Blog

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Lees's P.E. & NCLB-Policy is taken from a CNN article titled: "No CHild Left Out of the dodgeball game" raised some issues about Physical Education in U.S. schools; including the continuing debate over physical education and test scores that admininstration and teachers seem to fuss over year after year after year. It also focuses on a claim that school administrators as well as the Bush Administration, placed so much emphasis on the NCLB Act, that it actually forgot about the physical education and well being of America's Students when it placed more interest in the test scores and less interest in the students' physical education.

No Child Left Behind information from U.S. Department of Education

Lee's blog includes a quote by Russell Pate, a Professor of exercise at the Univesity of South Carolina stating that: "We really feel that a national problem is that P.E. and health education are not included in core curriculum in schools. I think it is obvious schools are going to understandably pay the most attention to areas where they are evaluated. If we continue to leave P.E. off the accountability records, it will be hard to get schools to incorporate it."

The blog continues by saying: "Kids need to move" meaning that students need physical education classes. It's the P.E. that helps students develop good exercise habits that will last a lifetime.
Read more about the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/20/PE.NCLB/index.html