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Article	More classroom focus	Increases brain activity	Helps against obesity which is linked to more poor academics	Increases gpa
https://recreation.dasa.ncsu.edu/2017/09/14/new-study-examines-link-between-exercise-and-academic-performance/				In the findings, an increase of an extra one hour per week of physical activity produced a 0.06 improvement in total GPA, a small but positive result.
https://activelivingresearch.org/sites/default/files/ALR_Brief_ActiveEducation_Jan2015.pdf	Immediately after just one session of physical activity, children can increase their attention and memory, and reduce inappropriate behavior, such as being unfocused and causing others to become distracted	Students that were involved in 20 minutes of exercise showed more brain activity than the students that didn't exercise
https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/764365		Children assigned to exercise showed increased bilateral prefrontal cortex activity	Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies performed in the Americas, Europe, and Australia provide clear evidence for the association of inactivity and obesity with poorer academic performance	Statewide studies have found a positive relationship between FitnessGram® (a fitness assessment and reporting program for youth) scores and performance on academic achievement tests.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201501/	When physical activity is used as a break from academic learning time, post engagement effects include better attention		Overall, a rapidly growing body of work suggests that time spent engaged in physical activity is related not only to a healthier body but also to a healthier mind	physically active and aerobically fit children consistently outperform their inactive and unfit peers academically on both a short- and a long-term basis.