With the potential return of the Presidential Fitness Test, here’s how one writer is helping her son have a better ...

Over the next decade, there will need for over 30,000 teachers trained in special education in Minnesota. That’s according to the state’s Department of Education. One aspect of special education that ...

The yearly scholastic fitness test may help to combat the rising childhood obesity rate—but only if schools (and the government) make some changes.

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in ...

As Dr. Tamplain explained, motor skills play an important role in children’s long-term physical and mental health. For example, children who struggle kicking a ball or climbing a playground wall when ...

Physical literacy is a term normally associated with school-age children. But there’s a growing consensus among health and ...

Physical education classes at Groton-Dunstable Middle School have been looking a little different in this still-young school year after longtime gym teacher and coach Sean Murphy retired after 35 ...

A recent review published in Pediatric Physical Therapy has highlighted deficiencies in the scientific support and ...

A Mount Sinai physical education teacher has come up with a unique way to keep his students connected to the great outdoors. Eric Strovink, along with his colleagues in the Mount Sinai district, are ...

WEST NYACK - Ian Alcantara-Beltre holds up a plastic ball, calls out "Red!" and goes the next one, and calls out "Green!" as he skips around the sensory room at Rockland BOCES preschool. The ...