The yearly scholastic fitness test may help to combat the rising childhood obesity rate—but only if schools (and the government) make some changes.

Elementary students in Steubenville City Schools are jumping on the bandwagon to take the Governor’s Healthy Ohio Team ...

President Donald Trump is bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test for kids in the U.S. Trump’s executive order calls for enhanced physical activity and participation in youth sports and better ...

Running the length of a mile on the school track. Sitting and reaching until you touch your toes. Counting push ups in the gym. On July 31, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that ...

The Cold War-era test was a staple of school gyms for half a century before the Obama administration replaced it. Trump says his focus on... For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, the once-ubiquitous school program that for more than five decades had American children running miles ...

For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like "shuttle run" and "sit-and-reach" likely conjure vivid memories of what was once a staple of American physical education: the Presidential Fitness ...

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