Only six states mandate the appropriate guidelines—150 minutes each week—for elementary school physical education. For older students, two states mandate the appropriate amount of physical education instruction for middle school, and none require adequate physical education at the high school level.

UGA College of Education researcher Michael Schmidt is leading a study to determine whether psychological and eating behavior traits predict compensatory behavior changes – information that could be used to help tailor weight management exercise interventions.

Through reflections, discussions and theoretical readings, students explore the nexus between language and culture, and the issues involved in teaching English for Speakers of other Languages.

The projects, funded by grants totaling more than $1 million from Georgia’s Race to the Top Innovation Fund, provide additional clinical experiences, collaboration and mentorship that increase the likelihood of developing exceptional teachers and leaders.

Robert Hill, associate professor of adult education, is joining with UGA colleague, Ervan Garrison, a professor of anthropology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, UGA’s Institute of Native American Studies, and his long-time pottery instructor and elder, Sarah Natani, to create a project for the Navajo Nation to engage in arts and cultural practices.

Researchers in kinesiology are encouraging students to help individuals with disabilities through new wellness courses that partner abled-bodied preclinical undergraduate and graduate students with disabled participants.

On Monday, Georgia became the latest among a handful of states to adopt preseason heat acclimatization guidelines for secondary school athletics after hearing the results and recommendations from a three-year UGA College of Education study of exertional heat illness rates of athletes at 25 high schools across Georgia.

Results from the first randomized controlled trial focused on the effects of exercise training among individuals diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder adds to a growing body of evidence.

UGA special education professor leads project to continue and expand undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare high-quality early education and care providers in response to a relatively new Georgia teaching certification in Birth through Five.

More than 90 million adults in the United States lack the literacy skills for a fully productive and secure life in the 21st century, says a National Academy of Sciences report on which UGA College of Education Associate Dean and Distinguished Research Professor Noel Gregg collaborated.