Just submitted the following letter to the editor to The Atlantic, in response to https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/598297/physical-education/ : Making grants without requiring high-quality evidence-based strategies, as Texas Fitness Now did, often does not end well--especially when combined with “bad PE” at a number of schools. But contradicting the stereotypes, Desy, Peterson & Brockman showed that “gym” is actually the favorite subject of many middle-schoolers. So beware the unintended collateral damage: continuing to slash PE (& recess) risks further demotivating large numbers of students , many of whom are already at-risk. “No PE” may be even more of a threat to student engagement & success than “bad PE.” And we should not look at this issue in isolation. How can we keep cutting physical education, as we enter our 5 th decade of a deadly serious chronic disease epidemic now affecting the majority of Americans —especially when so much di
Committed to developing whole-population healthy habits, starting K-12, and using advocacy & social entrepreneurship to do whatever is necessary for a healthy future for us all.