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EPISODE · Mar 22, 2012 · 4 MIN

Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?.

from Podcast English for the 21st Century.

Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?. This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests. That was the finding of a study of teenage males in Norway. Now, other research shows that physical activity may help students do better in their classes. The research comes as educators in some countries are reducing time for activities like physical education. They are using the time instead for academic subjects like math and reading. Researchers at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam reviewed the results of fourteen studies. Twelve were from the United States, one from Canada and one from South Africa. The studies appeared between nineteen ninety-seven and two thousand nine. They included more than fifty-five thousand children, ages six to eighteen. ..., ... http://sites.google.com/site/enriqueruizdiaz/ also: http://sites.google.com/site/mcenriqueruizdiaz/ Thank you for your visit

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