Topic: ATHLETICS; Playing Sports Dosen't Lift Grades, Study Finds
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Although participating in high school athletics tends to keep student-athletes in school, leads them to participate in other extracurricular activities and makes them feel more popular than nonathletes, it has virtually no immediate effect on academic achievement for most minority-group students. And it has even less impact on their later success in college and the work force.
Those were among the key findings of an extensive statistical study released yesterday in Manhattan by the Women's Sports Foundation.
The study, ''Minorities in Sports,'' which was funded by Miller Lite, represented a detailed statistical analysis of data gathered by the United States Department of Education in a broader study, ''High School and Beyond.'' That study started with a representative national sample of 30,000 high school sophomores in 1980 and tracked them for six years.
