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Art-Centered School Reform Model Yields Results |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE 'DYING' ARTS |
| Author: Melissa Burns |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,517 Words, 10,600 Characters |
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Music, art, and drama may not be “extras” after all. A growing body of research suggests that schools that have cut back on these classes in their quest for high performance on standardized tests may do better to reinstate them. Quality arts education bolsters rather than detracts from student performance in core academic subjects like mathematics and science, with students from lower socio-economic backgrounds making the biggest gains, according to numerous studies.
Education Development Center’s SmART Schools is proving the point. The program brings an art-centered, comprehensive improvement model to struggling schools--and gets results. Currently operating in sixteen schools in New England, SmART Schools has begun working with four elementary schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, part of a four year school improvement project funded by the United States Department of Education.
In SmART Schools, arts education is a part of every classroom, every day, incorporating theater, music, dance and the visual arts. The o...
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...s to design problems.”
As a state winner, she becomes a candidate for the 2007 National Teacher of the Year, who will be selected in spring 2007.
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For more information, contact SmART Schools director Eileen Mackin at emackin@edc.org, or visit the SmART Schools Web site: www.smartschoolsnetwork.org.
Copyright © 2006 Education Development Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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