Data and Research

CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Study
Trends in the Prevalence of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors - National YRBS: 1991-2015 

CDC’s School Health Practices and Policies Study
Results from the School Health Practices and Policies Study 2016 (Physical Education and Physical Activity = p.1, pp.16-24, pp.81-82)
SHPPS 2012 Physical Education Fact Sheet
SHPPS 2012 Physical Activity Fact Sheet

SHAPE America and American Heart Association/Voices for Healthy Kids
2016 Shape of the Nation: Status of Physical Education in the USA

Active Living Research — Research Briefs
Active Education: Growing Evidence on Physical Activity and Academic Performance (January 2015) 
School Policies on Physical Education and Physical Activity (October 2011)
Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance (Summer 2009) 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Education and Health in Schools: A Survey of Parents (December 2013)

National Academy of Sciences
Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School 

Voices for Healthy Kids
PE Toolkit

SHAPE America
National Physical Education Standards