Ms Sweetland says a drop in funding has meant fewer chances for teachers to develop their skills and less training for them in running inter-school competitions and after-school clubs.
In 2009, we filed an amicus brief in a case against the Florida High School Athletics Association, which had reduced the maximum number of competitions that a school could schedule while exempting 36, 000 boys who played football and only 4, 300 girls and 201 boys who participated in competitive cheerleading.
Children start with dance competitions in primary school and continue with their one-upmanship on the dance floor in nightclubs and weddings into their adulthood.
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But by narrowing the scope to mathematics competitions in grade school (which unsurprisingly has been a predominantly male extracurricular), researchers have uncovered new insight on the subject.
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Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics -- the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the "Cougar Cannon" -- to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.
There are national competitions for academic high school students, whether spelling bees, math Olympics, and national debate championships.
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The Drake Relays feature a range of competitions from high-school through elite levels, but in addition will host a series of all-comers road races next Saturday, April 28.
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The day was winded up with awards to young kids from school and undergraduate and post graduate students for various competitions held.
Throughout the year, Partners in Learning hosts a series of professional development events and competitions around the world for teachers and school leaders.
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Meanwhile, teachers at Cardiff's Fitzalan High School have told BBC Wales they will be withdrawing from all competitions at this year's Urdd National Eisteddfod in Cardiff as a result of another poem - called Bwyd Od (Odd food).
The schools would develop an annual program based around a series of sustainability themes and work with government, community and private sector partners to develop school activities around these themes including special events, lesson content, competitions and exchanges between the schools.
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