Sep. 13—SUNY Delhi has been awarded $40,702 for swimming instruction. The grant is part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's NY SWIMS initiative, which allocates nearly $150 million statewide, aims to make public ...

The Finnish National Board of Education has mandated that primary school children participate in municipally-funded swimming lessons. From first to fourth grade, the pupils learn to feel comfortable ...

It's never too late to increase swimming safety — and your ability as a swimmer in general. That's the message of swimming advocates as the community reacts to what has become a deadly summer for ...

My students needed a class before beginning swimming. I went to the dean with this problem. “May I teach a class for students who are afraid?” “Changing the undergraduate curriculum takes a lot of red ...

New York City must hire more lifeguards and do more to teach kids to swim, local leaders said Tuesday, days after two teens drowned while trying to beat the heat in the waters off the Rockaways.

It's a completely different experience to swim in a warm indoor pool in your swimsuit than it is to fall into a cold fjord, lake or river. Swimming instruction for students needs to take this into ...

The YMCA pioneered group lessons in 1910, and today teaches more Americans how to swim than any other organization. The YMCA offers lessons at three levels for adult swimmers, clinics that focus on a ...

Starting in February, children will have the chance to learn swimming basics at a new Buffalo Grove school. Big Blue Swim School, founded by John Lonergan and Chris DeJong, is scheduled to open its ...

A spike in the number of children who have died from drowning this summer in Dallas County, Texas, lends some urgency to campaigns in that area and elsewhere for bolstering school-based swim education ...

One of the most important things taught in CPR classes isn’t chest compressions or making sure the airway is open or any of the other steps in the process of trying to manually save someone whose ...