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Sports Rules—Deserving Students and School Reformers Suffer: The Tragic Impact of the NCAA's Efforts to Impose Standards on High Schools by Joe Nathan — 1998Is the National Collegiate Athletic Organization (NCAA), an organization whose
central role is regulating college and university sports, really the appropriate group
to dictate high school course standards? The NCAA’s Initial Eligibility process illustrates the harm a poorly designed, badly implemented effort to impose standards from
“on high" can do to deserving students and talented educators. The NCAA’s questionable standards and sloppy procedures have delayed or blocked thousands of high
school students, including a National Merit Scholar, class valedictorians and other
qualified students, from participating in college sports. A strong athletic record,
good grades, and high test scores no longer guarantee that students will be able to
participate in university sports they now must take an acceptable number of
NCAA-approved courses. The NCAA has also frustrated high school reformers by
classifying many researched-based courses as inappropriate for college preparation.
This article describes a growing national challenge to NCAA policies and procedures, and proposes next steps.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Joe Nathan
University of Minnesota
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