Officials in Pasco County, Florida, have considered squeezing athletic budgets for each of the past six years. They’ve so far agreed to cut about 700 education jobs, and they extended winter break in 2011, but sports have been left mostly untouched.
In the US, sports have been as much a part of school as math for decades. Is it time for that to change?
For the Atlantic, Amanda Ripley argues that school sports are a major factor in the underperformance of American students.
