Standardized test scores went up, and fewer students needed special-education services. Delquadri and Greenwood are following the progress of these students through the 12th grade. By the end of 11th grade, significantly fewer of those who had been involved in peer tutoring had dropped out, compared with those in conventional classes. The KU researchers' findings were published earlier this year in Preventing School Failure magazine. FIT Strenuous exercise, like pumping iron, is not required to be fit, especially for the over-60 crowd.
Most adults start much too rigorously.
As a result, they are stiff and sore and won't want to continue. People should test their functional level of fitness before beginning any exercise, Osness said. He and his colleagues developed a test to determine fitness levels of older adults that is used widely in Kansas as well as nationally and internationally. The more important benefits of exercise for older adults are to maintain tissue vitality and a good quality of life. A gift many adults can give year-round is listening to a child read, according to a University of Kansas School of Education researcher.