Sports and Education

A timely unbiased look at the positive and negative effects of school-sponsored sports on the American education system.At a time when sports coverage inundates the airwaves when coaches are routinely among the highest-paid school employees and when professional sports recruiters are increasingly focusing on high school students Sports and Education offers a balanced thought-provoking look at a deep-cutting issue. Is it time for the United States to mirror a number of other industrialized countries and remove sports from educational settings as many education and athletic professionals have suggested?Sports and Education challenges many long-held assumptions and examines all viewpoints surrounding this question. The result is a clear-eyed research-supported look at both the positive and the negative impact of school-sponsored athletics on the participants their nonparticipating classmates parents coaches fans educators and school boards.