Recent insightful articles from Andscape/ESPN & Education Week, plus Aspen’s latest Project Play initiative announced at June’s Ideas Festival.
Andscape / ESPN: The New Participation in Youth Sports: Adults Gone Wild. Senior Writer Jerry Bembry explores the world of youth sports where instead of kids being cheered and celebrated, the atmosphere is becoming more and more dominated by adults gone wild.
Education Week: School Sports Matter. How to Make Them Matter More. Rick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Harvard University’s Jal Mehta, co-hosts of Straight Talk with Rick and Jal, share their conversation on the topic of learning and sports and the broader relevance for education.
Aspen Sports & Society Project Play: Announcing 63X30 national table
Barely half of youth in the U.S. play organized sports. Achieving the national public health target of 63% participation by 2030 will require bold moves by stakeholders from the grassroots to the treetops. Yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, we announced a cohort of 18 leading organizations stepping up to the challenge, as members of the Project Play national roundtable. Learn about the effort to support and drive systems-level progress.