Does football distract public schools from their mission? (Michael Hansen, Brookings)

As we recover from the weekend’s Super Bowl parties, now may be a good time to reflect: do our public schools have a healthy relationship with football? Or has our cultural fascination with football allowed our public institutions of learning—both in K-12 and the collegiate level— to drop the ball on their more urgent, core objectives?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/02/09-football-distracts-schools-mission-hansen