Quality varied widely across schools at the time, he said. In some cases, physical education was taught by school aides as opposed to credentialed teachers and not all met the 200-minute minimum.

GILCREST, CO – SEPTEMBER 15:Kindergartner Melanie Talamantes, right, rides a scooter pushed by classmate Deegan Oster, second from right, alongside their classmates during John Reid’s physical ...

Tiani’s work in the classroom and the glowing recommendations of those who she has worked with over the years hasn’t gone unnoticed, especially by her physical education colleagues, who recently named ...

But when physical education specialists are brought in to relieve elementary classroom teachers, the need to keep students in class every minute seems to disappear, noted Dianne Wilson-Graham, ...

Terry Piper is an elementary physical education teacher at Palma Ceia Elementary School and Site Director for Bay Area Physical Education-Health Project, Hayward, CA. As a physical education ...

Liberty Elementary School fourth-graders, including Mackenzie Hanika, left, do exercises based on numbers they rolled on dice, during a physical education class taught at the Sioux City school by ...

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Kate Cox, an elementary and middle-school PE teacher in California, wishes schools would “realize what they’re missing when they cut PE because of ...

Students at Gilcrest Elementary School don’t go a day without physical activity. Weekly 45-minute physical education classes are not sufficient to engage the students’ bodies and minds. Physical ...

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. The kids sprinted ...