{"product_id":"sports-crazy-how-sports-are-sabotaging-american-schools-paperback","title":"Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven J. Overman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational and health goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven J. Overman describes how this agenda is driven largely by partisan fans and parents of athletes who exert an inordinate influence on school priorities, and he explains how and why school administrators shockingly and consistently capitulate to these demands. The author underscores the incongruity of public schools involved in an entertainment business and the effects this diversion has on academic integrity, learning, life experience, and overall educational outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverman examines out-of-control school sports within the context of a school's educational mission and curriculum, with telling reference to impacts on physical education. He explores as well the outsized place of interscholastic sports beyond the classroom and scrutinizes the distorted relationship between intramural or recreational sports and elitist, varsity athletics. Overman's chapter on tackle football explains many reasons why this sport should be eliminated from the school extracurriculum and replaced by flag or touch football.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverman presents a brief history of interscholastic sports, and he compares and contrasts the American experience of school-sponsored sport to the European model of community-based clubs. Which approach better serves students? Overman recommends reforms in the context of a radical proposal to phase out interscholastic sports in favor of an intramural or club model. This approach would alleviate such problems as elitism and gender bias and reign in hypercompetitiveness while freeing schools to educate students rather than provide public entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven J. Overman\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired professor of health and physical education at Jackson State University. He is author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Youth Sports Crisis: Out-of-Control Adults, Helpless Kids\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport: How Calvinism and Capitalism Shaped America's Games\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51805528883488,"sku":"9781496821317","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c5b44849fd65476d7a6365c2ff354ef1.webp?v=1780910821","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sports-crazy-how-sports-are-sabotaging-american-schools-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}