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IHPRA Newsletter
May 2006
The historical, linguistic and
philosophical high ground of physical education
provide a past and present insights upon which to build the future.
Paradigm 21 provides a start point.
Click here.
Arlette C. Perry, chairwoman of the exercise and
sports-sciences department
or the University of Miami School of Education
and graduate student
Xuewen Wang report
that playing a violent video game
is metabolically like walking about two miles per hour.
Kneeling is a great way to maintain hip
flexor mobility,
but even the Catholics are abandoning the practice.
Take a look.
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Students of teachers who hold certification from the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards achieve, on average, no greater academic
progress than students of teachers without the special status, a
long-awaited study using North Carolina data concludes. Bess Keller
reports that the study found that there was basically no difference in the
achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS
credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried
to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student
test-score data was collected. The results of the study came to light last
week after Andrew Rotherham -- co-founder and director of Washington-based
Education Sector -- used a posting on his Eduwonk blog to note that the
privately organized NBPTS national board had apparently been "sitting
on" the results because they were not favorable.
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Major
Soda Brands will Not Sell to Public Schools
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
America's
largest beverage distributors have agreed to stop selling sodas to
public schools. Only water,
unsweetened juice and low-fat milks will be sold to elementary and
middle schools. Only diet
sodas would be sold to high schools.
Around 87 percent of the school drink market will be affected.
Around 75 percent of America's public schools should be in step before
the 2008-2009 school year. All
public schools are expected to be selling healthier drinks a year later. |
'Food
insecurity' linked to obesity in women
Whole
Grain Foods Are Simple Way to Fight Childhood Obesity
HHS
to Sponsor National Obesity Action Forum
As
childhood obesity levels increase, children and adolescents are being diagnosed
with Type 2 diabetes
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