Lehnhard quoted in Maine Women article on physical education changes
Robert Lehnhard, an education professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Maine Women article, “The new PE: Less competition, more fitness.” Lehnhard, who studies fitness involving school-aged kids, has found students who progressed through 12 years of school were “significantly less fit when they finished than when they started,” according to the article. Lehnhard said the cuts to school’s physical education programs and the time allotted to PE are more likely causes than the curriculum. “Having PE twice a week for 40 minutes; no one’s going to get fit with that,” he said. “If we did that with reading, no child would be able to read.”