Study: Fitter Students Fare Better
Shreveport Times, Melody Brumble, 09/02/2010
A statewide study of public school students' physical fitness found the fittest students tended to perform better on state standardized tests. The Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning analyzed results of Fitnessgram tests taken by more than 25,000 students in 15 Louisiana school districts in the 2009-10 school year.