Behind the Headline: Taking Sports Out Of School

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Taking Sports Out Of School
10/21/14 | New York Times

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The Academic Value of Non-Academics
Winter 2012 | Education Next

The New York Times Room for Debate page hosts a variety of pieces today on whether high schools should drop their sports teams. Among the contributors are Amanda Ripley (“School Is About Learning, Not Sports”), Buzz Bissinger (“Turn Down the High School Football Volume”), and Jay Greene and Daniel Bowen (“Sports and Education Work Well Together”).

In a feature for Education Next, June Kronholz explored the case for keeping extracurricular activities in “The Academic Value of Non-Academics.

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