To Matthew Mixer, physical education is not just about improving your shot in basketball or shortening your mile time. To the Horizon Community Learning Center's elementary physical education teacher, it is about having fun but it is also about preparing mentally and socially for the challenges ahead.

March 9, 2005

Middle school students in the Kyrene Elementary School District will have less instruction time for music, art and physical education next school year to make room for more reading, writing and math.

Physical education teachers say they have an answer to childhood obesity: More PE.

Students at Williams Field and Higley high schools, and eighth-graders who will attend those schools next year, are eligible to participate in a free sports physical clinic that will be provided by Gilbert Hospital.

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Arizona students might be getting daily doses of physical education. Or they might be getting more time to run and play during recess.

Carrington College Mesa, part of DeVry Inc., has earned a five-year accreditation for its physical therapist assistant associate degree program from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE).

October 23, 2004

If Arizona Law Enforcement Academy Class 401 thought Day 2 was going to be easier than Day 1, they were wrong. Monday, March 14, started out with five guys doing push-ups.

If Arizona Law Enforcement Academy Class 401 thought Day 2 was going to be easier than Day 1, they were wrong. Monday, March 14, started out with five guys doing push-ups.

Parents of school-aged kids may remember taking a physical fitness test that involved running the 50-yard dash and performing a zig-zag run (shuttle run) along with other tests such as the pull-up. Grandparents may remember throwing a softball, running or walking 600 yards, or doing the flexed arm hang. Over time youth physical fitness tests have changed. Now the national test, called FITNESSGRAM, produced by the Cooper Institute in Dallas and co-sponsored by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition and the American Alliance for Health Physical Education and Recreation, includes test items that relate to health rather than sports-related test items included in earlier tests.

The streamers have been swept up and the tinsel is coming down. Buckeyes and Wildcats are heading home in droves. The holidays are over and here comes another year.

The streamers have been swept up and the tinsel is coming down. Buckeyes and Wildcats are heading home in droves. The holidays are over and here comes another year.

Gary Holdcroft could see what looked like snow falling in his yard hours after a wildfire ignited 20 miles away on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.

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March 21, 2005

Paint easels or digital calculators? For many school districts, the choice of how students should spend their school day is obvious in an era when scrutiny is on academics.

October 30, 2004

Getting into a bar fight or using a fake ID in downtown Tempe means a trip to jail — at least for the next few weeks.

One of the strongest bridges between Arizona and China is being built by Arizona State University, which has several high-profile education and research programs under way.