Arts Education: A Look Ahead
In this Commentary collection, a range of researchers, professors, and practitioners argue their case for arts education's path forward
Arts education is a discipline in transition. How the arts should be taught in schools鈥攁nd the scientific evidence of their impact鈥攔emains divisive. While some advocate for arts integration, others caution that maintaining a separate space for arts education is key to its survival. In this collection, 澳门跑狗论坛 has convened a range of researchers, professors, and practitioners to argue their case for arts education鈥檚 path forward. Despite their many contrasting opinions, these experts all agree on one thing: Arts instruction is key to American schooling and is worth supporting, researching, and protecting.
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How to Assess Arts Education鈥擜nd Why You Should
Arts instruction and understanding the creative process can help prepare students for 21st-century challenges.
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The Arts Need to Be a Central Part of Schooling
The research in favor of arts learning is stacking up, writes Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 Mariale Hardiman.
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There's Something Missing From STEM Learning
Including arts in science and math instruction promotes student creativity and job preparation, writes STEAM specialist Susan Riley.
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The Arts Have Much More to Teach Us
After 50 years of arts-learning research, here's what Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner have learned鈥攁nd what they still hope to.
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Arts Integration Is a Sucker's Game
Turning "STEM" into "STEAM" won't stop arts from getting squeezed out of the curriculum, cautions researcher Jay P. Greene.