Though it's an arts school, academic achievement is a priority: According to the most recent available data, 92 percent of the academy's sophomores passed the state's English test and 80 percent passed math, compared to 73 percent and 67 percent of Boston students overall.
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Cross Training: Arts and Academics Are Inseparable | Edutopia - 0 views
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Teachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties of light.
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in the philosopher's eyes, "art could make you more perfect. In fact, the purpose of art is to inspire you in becoming."
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This pilot school models integration of arts and academics. It provides education to inner-city and special needs students, including encouraging in them the drive to "become."
Arts For the Schools - 1 views
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A short page supporting an organization- it brings up neurological effects of arts involvement to learning.
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A meta-analysis evaluates the myths of how the arts instrumentally impact student performance- few are found to be true. The article then names eight habits of mind that are taught in studio art classes, which are proposed to be transferable to other domains. They include forms of creative thinking, persistence, and relationship to the field, etc.
Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the ... - 1 views
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This chapter discusses the advantages provided to children by the inclusion of arts in schools
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in case you can't see that because it's Questia, here's another article by the same author http://www.dixonsclass.com/Lissa/strong%20arts%20strong%20schools.pdf
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I just think this shows the larger importance of something we're losing not just in schools, but nationwide. If we don't teach our children to value culture, and we let ourselves forget it, "Then what are we fighting for?" (Churchill).