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The importance of arts to our nation - 4 views

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Cross Training: Arts and Academics Are Inseparable | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/arts-academics-are-inseparable arts
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • Theater major Michael Cognata made the connection between this lesson and his life: "The things we learn in theater could be good for theater, but they're also good for other areas of life." "Like what?" Clark asked. "Like becoming a responsible man."
  • They want their students to go to college, period, and they want graduates to possess the skills and sense of responsibility to engage with their communities. "There is no art without an audience, and there is no democracy without people's investments,"
  • He'll also have the discipline, leadership, and teamwork he believes theater has given him no matter what work he pursues -- it's all in the process of becoming.
  • stephanib on 26 Mar 11
     
    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."
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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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StudioThinking - 0 views

www.keepartsinschools.org/...StudioThinking.pdf arts
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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.
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Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the ... - 1 views

www.questia.com/PM.qst arts
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  • stephanib on 26 Mar 11
     
    This chapter discusses the advantages provided to children by the inclusion of arts in schools
  • stephanib on 26 Mar 11
     
    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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