Fitness Report Cards Part of 'New PE' Movement
Darlene Groves was caught off guard when she received a physical-fitness report from her daughters' school that ranked them in a "needs improvement" category and suggested they eat more vegetables and exercise more.
The detailed update came from Fitzgerald Elementary School in Arlington, Texas, one of some 11,000 schools nationwide now using a program called Fitnessgram, according to the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research, a nonprofit research and education center in Dallas that devised the approach.
Fitnessgram seeks to make physical activity a part of students' daily life, includes an individualized assessment that gives students information about their aerobic capacity, body composition, abdominal strength and endurance, upper-body...
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