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Summary Of The Case Against High School Sports By Amanda Ripley

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Amanda Ripley argues in her article, The Case Against High-School Sports, that American high-schools should concentrate less on sports and more on education. One of the main points of the article compares the academic success of American high-schools to that of high-schools in other countries. The other main point of the article compares the academic success of American high-schools affiliated with sports to those that are not. The results of the two studies are both shocking and expected at the same time. America is one of the most affluent and demographically developed countries in the world. Yet, despite these odds, public high schools continue to perform very poorly on standardized knowledge tests. But with the current setup of
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