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Most fitness centers, of course, don't require members to wear heart-rate monitors to gauge how well they're staying "in the zone," but these exercisers are only 13 years old and are taking part in their daily physical-education class at Madison Junior High in Naperville, Ill. The...
Why the escalating attention? For starters, PE class has become practically invisible over the past decade--even as American kids have become alarmingly obese. In 1991, 42% of high school kids participated in daily PE. Now only 25% do. Less than a quarter of all children get 20 minutes of...
New-PE enthusiasts feel their approach is the best hope for the future, and it's easy to see why. Teachers don't discourage competitive team sports, but they don't allow any kid to sit and watch either. A lesson on basketball skills might involve groups of two-on...
The benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able...
Yet in that office and in the following hours with dietitian Jan Hangen and psychologist Johanna Sagarin, Wayne and his mom also saw there were real solutions. When Wayne told Hangen he was there "because I eat too much, I'm lazy, and I don't exercise enough," she told...