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  The Night at the 21st Century Museum http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/local/2016/05/03/student-projects-come-alive-night-st-century-museum/83907148/ With this project, we discovered that it not only helps you get fit, it helps you get smarter.  When your fitness gets higher, your GPA gets higher. – Ashley Barrera

When Stephen Ford starting working as a P.E. teacher 10 years ago at Farmersville High School, he began to notice an interesting correlation. Students who were more physically fit often had higher grade point averages than those who were not as active. After seven years at the high school, Ford worked at an elementary school for one year,…

Growing evidence suggests that aerobic fitness benefits the brain and cognition during childhood. The present study is the first to explore cortical brain structure of higher fit and lower fit 9- and 10-year-old children, and how aerobic fitness and cortical thickness relate to academic achievement. We demonstrate that higher fit children (70th percentile VO2max) showed…