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The best way to stay up to date with articles that are being published in the news media about PE is to sign up for Google News Alerts. Use the link below to do so.
Unfortunately the article is not available online. You will need to purchase the issue to read it.
This is a journal article, published in the Physical Activity and Fitness Research Digest (September 1999), about the current status of physical education in schools.
This article talks about the NEW PE and how it relates to the CDC School Health Guidelines. While you are there subscribe to the newsletter.
This is an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA. Jan. 27, 1999;281:327-334). Click here for a more detailed presentation of this article.
A Survey Conducted by Opinion Research Corporation International of Princeton, NJ, for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
You can only view the abstract to this article for free. You will need to subscribe to their service to see the entire article.
Includes audio interviews with Judy Young (have to have certain plug ins for your computer however) as well as pictures of many of the PE Teachers and kids interviewed. This is the story that actually aired on CNN on May 13, 1998.
You will need Real Player to listen to this wonderful report about how physical education can help with fitness.
More Articles About PE (Not online)
Pereira, Joseph, "Phys Ed isn't what it used to be: Now we have "New P.E." The Wall Street Journal, Monday, September 28, 1998.
Hellmich, Nanci, "CDC encourages schools to get students moving toward fitness," USA Today, March 17, 1997, p. D6.
Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), out last week, don't offer a specific prescription for how much physical activity kids should get, but they do recommend, for instance, that schools require daily physical education for kindergarten through grade 12. "Just as we're learning how important physical activity is to the health of young people and adults, we're seeing a decline in the number of schools that require daily physical education," says Lloyd Kolbe, director of CDC's division of adolescent and school health.
Meyer, Michele. (November 1997). "The New PE". Better Homes and Gardens, pp. 108, 110.
O'Neill, Catherine. (October 1990). "Do you hate PE Class"? Washington Post.
Shaughnessy, Dan, "An exercise in futility to trash gym," The Boston Globe, May 25, 1996, p. 69.
Shaughnessy decries proposals to eliminate the mandatory physical education classes required of Massachusetts public school students in every grade, stating that the gym class period is one of the few times that children in the 1990s get any exercise.-->
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