At the first of the two sessions, 90 percent of the children’s hands shot into the air when they were asked who could swim, she said. But hardly any of them passed a basic swim test, which included ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Memorial Day is quickly approaching and summer is right around the corner. Many families will make plans in, on or around the water. With that, YMCA lifeguards are stressing that ...

Dartmouth recently reinstated standardized testing as one of its admissions requirements. This is commendable: we must select the smartest minds. But we should not just raise our intellectual ...

Crawfish Aquatics turned over its lanes to neighbors teaching Gardere-area children how to swim. The Gardere Initiative summer program participants learned basic swimming skills from instructors at ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This month, the Bath Area Family YMCA began offering a new, free swim lesson ...

It may take your brain a couple of laps to process that headline. Shanghai University recently announced it would hold its mandatory swimming test online; hilarity and pithy Internet commentary thus ...