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Students lose interest in sports
Photo: Aspen Institute Project Play Sofia Velasquez, 15, enjoys playing soccer for her Chicago high school, but games keep getting...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20221 min read
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If schooling was as important as football
Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20181 min read
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Learning to hate exercise in P.E. class
I walk every day, do weight training two to three days a week and go to a weekly Zumba class. In the summer, I swim every day. If my...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 28, 20182 min read
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Trophies are for winners
Trophies are for winners, a Maryland youth baseball league has decided. “For years, Reisterstown Baseball has given trophies to its...

Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20181 min read
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Outing Club can’t go outside: It’s not safe
Penn State students have organized and led wilderness trips for 98 years. Penn State’s Outing Club can’t go outside any more, reports Don...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20181 min read
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Youth football takes more hits
California, Illinois and New York legislators are considering banning children from playing tackle football because of the risks of brain...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 10, 20182 min read
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Swim Team
Swim Team, a documentary, about three young men with autism who compete as the Jersey Hammerheads, will premiere on PBS’ POV tomorrow...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 1, 20171 min read
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‘Step’ inspires
Step, a new documentary on the “Lethal Ladies” of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, is getting rave reviews. As the girls...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20171 min read
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What Is The Proper Response To This?
The University of North Carolina may have covered itself in glory “on the fields of friendly strife”, but at what cost to education and...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 7, 20171 min read
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Utah girls demand their own football teams
If high schools fund a boys’ football team, they should fund a girls’ football team, claims a Title IX lawsuit by parents of six Utah...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 2, 20172 min read
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Why Indo-American kids bee good
In Bee-Brained, in Harper’s Magazine, Vauhini Vara, a former spelling champ, visits the all-Indian-American North South competition,...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 29, 20171 min read
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