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Research suggests that kindergartners can enhance their reading comprehension skills and understanding of text when they engage in discussions about books.

When it comes to physical education (PE), students and teachers in high school or middle school have always had different perspectives on what purpose it serves.

Studies have shown that in U.S. public schools, students of color are far too often labeled as having an intellectual disability, learning disability, or a behavioral disorder that requires their placement into a special education program.

When it comes to education policy issues, individuals are switching their positions to align with their party affiliations rather than switching their party affiliations to align with their issue positions—a development known as political sorting.

Firefighters are routinely subjected to stressful and physically demanding conditions on the job. Tactical athlete training can improve their overall fitness, injury resilience, and performance.

“Cultural inquiry” is a process teachers can use to make their classrooms more welcoming to students from different backgrounds. This process celebrates cultural diversity and recognizes the individual strengths that students bring to the classroom. Teachers who engage in cultural inquiry have more positive relationships with students, which ultimately results in better educational outcomes.

Administrators in some K-12 schools are hesitant to dismiss low performing teachers for several reasons.

Parks improve the quality of life for residents of a community by providing access to green spaces, hiking trails, and recreational facilities. Community parks also have the potential to facilitate connections between individuals of different races, cultures, and ethnicities which can lead to a reduction in prejudice and an increase in positive social relationships and personal interactions. So, what are some ways in which park authority agencies can facilitate positive interactions among individuals of diverse backgrounds?

Increasingly, the world of youth sport has become a highly commercialized endeavor. The days of parents having their children play in the local volunteer youth sport league just for the fun of it are quickly disappearing and have become an almost quaint throwback to simpler times. Instead, more parents are making significant financial investments in hiring coaches who are skilled in developing the abilities of young athletes as they set their sights on securing a college scholarship or even an eventual lucrative offer to play professional sports for their child. The stakes are high and can lead to a strained parent-coach relationship. Unfortunately, the child or young athlete who is at the heart of this discord is the one who may suffer the most.

Collegiate club sport athletes experience the same, if not an even greater risk of exposure to injury compared with student-athletes who play an NCAA sport. Yet, collegiate club sport players are not provided with the same level of medical support and injury prevention services that student-athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) receive. There may be a couple of reasons that explain why.