Fact or Opinion

In Seattle, a parent was overheard telling his daughter she had cost him $40,000 because she had played poorly in front of an Ivy League coach at a basketball clinic.

Twenty five years ago, students played a couple of sports and eased up in summer; today, many are forced to specialize at an early age.

A big reason America is falling behind other countries in science and math is that we have effectively written off a huge chunk of our population as uninterested in those fields or incapable of succeeding in them.

Concerned about college scholarships, parents write $2,500 checks for Web pages that include their children’s athletic accomplishments, academic information, a personal essay, and even video footage for college coaches.

On Tuesday, Ms. Mary Barra, 51, completed a remarkable personal odyssey when she was named as the next chief executive of G.M. and the first woman to ascend to the top job at a major auto company.

It’s gotten to the point where every parent thinks their child is a super-athlete.

High schools sports long ago were stripped of innocence and quaint stereotypes.

Instead of striving on making work fun, managers should concentrate on creating the conditions in which a variety of personality types, from the excitable to the naturally downbeat, can flourish.

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