Sunday, January 27, 2008
Athletic Program Cuts in Public Schools In New York
I remember that in class we had a discussion about how horrible the quality of facilities are in New York City public school. This discussion developed into one about the different oppurtunities that one can get by either going to a public school or a private school, and so I followed this up by looking up articles on this and came across this article in the New York Times on the struggling athletic programs in the New York city public schools. This I thought was a good example of how public schools are actually struggling to offer extracirriculars, and something should be done to change this. This is the link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7D91131F936A25752C0A96F958260
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really cool follow up. this is specific to African American Athletes, but its a study about the effect of cultural assumptions about blacks and athleticism and the effect that this has on their aspirations and academic acheivement. its long. but even if you just skim it there is alot there. realllllyyyy interesting i think.
http://www.jstor.org/view/00222984/di990477/99p03704/0?frame=noframe&userID=4816a282@millbrook.org/01c0a8486b0050b295f&dpi=3&config=jstor
here is another one just on athletic participation in general. the way this study was done is interesting in that it asks student-athletes and student-non-athletes to rate themselves in terms of six categories: 1) physical appearance and attributes, 2) anxiety, 3) intellectual and school status, 4) behavior, 5)
happiness and satisfaction, and 6) popularity.
the athletes scored higher, particularly girls in terms of happiness and satisfaction as well as
intellectual and school status.
again. interesting. worth the read or a skim at least.
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