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This is a video from the LilySarahGraceFund website which supports using the arts in underfunded public elementary schools. It made me cry. I think...
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Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide: Coordination
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide: Coordination
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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”
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Researching and writing about increasing funding for arts education in schools makes me miss playing the cello. This summer, I will play the cello...
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With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on...
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“Because these students see the world through screens (mobile, tablet, and laptop), I expected them to embrace the idea of online education. Just the...”
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“The forms of thinking the arts stimulate and develop are far more appropriate for the real world we live in than the tidy right angled boxes we...”
Arts classes- Improve students’ overall academic performance
“We feel we need to change the conversation about the arts in this country,” said Ms. Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at Project Zero. “These instrumental arguments are going to doom the arts to failure, because any superintendent is going to say, ‘If the only reason I’m having art is to improve math, let’s just have more math.’ “
“Do we want to therefore say, ‘No singing,’ because singing didn’t lead to spatial improvement?” Ms. Winner added. “You get yourself in a bind there. The arts need to be valued for their own intrinsic reasons. Let’s figure out what the arts really do teach.”
In their new study Ms. Winner, Ms. Hetland and their co-authors, Shirley Veenema and Kimberly Sheridan, focused on the benefits accrued through classes in painting, drawing, sculpture and the other visual arts. The results are to be published in their book, “Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education” (Teachers College Press).
They observed students taught by five visual arts teachers in two high schools in Massachussetts: three at the Boston Arts Academy, a public urban high school, and two at the Walnut Hill School for the arts, an independent secondary school in Natick. At both schools, all students specialize in an art form but are enrolled in a regular academic curriculum.
The authors videotaped a two- to three-hour class of each teacher once a month for one academic year. They then zeroed in on what they deemed to be crucial segments of teaching and learning, showed those clips to the teacher after each class and interviewed them about their intentions.
