238Wednesday, March 28, 2001

12:15 PM-1:15 PM
Sport and Its Role in Educational Reform
While educational reform has been a major American concern over the past 17 years, sport has yet to be considered a player in the educational reform movement…until now. The American Sports Institute has created an educational program that has been hailed as “a model for total school reform” by researchers at the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, one of 10 research centers administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Find out how this has been done. Learn for yourself why “Sport is not an extracurricular activity. Sport is an academic discipline.”
Keyword(s): curriculum development
Speaker: Joel Kirsch, American Sports Institute, Mill Valley, CA

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