...this moment there is a great urgency around a major transformation in America’s schools. Persistently high dropout rates are indicating that teachers are enable to motivate and interest their students. Children are loosing their ability to think creatively and on abstract level due to the lack of arts education in schools today. If children were provided with arts education they would have higher test scores, would be more likely to go to college, and less likely to participate in criminal activity. Students who graduate from high school are products of a very test-centered and narrowed curriculum based upon answering a multiple choice question accurately. Recent high school graduates are unable to compete in the post-secondary education realm due to their inability to think creatively and critically compared to their classmates from around the world. At the non-profit I volunteer at, the walls are lined with quotes by famous artists that students can identify with such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, these are people who have been subjected to arts education and they are now making millions of dollars of off art. Arts education can refer to either being educated in the arts or using art as a way to teach general education. Drama, music, visual art, and dance are the most general types of art that are integrated into schools. In the President’s committee on the Arts he states the importance of integrating arts into general subjects “Reading, math, and writing require students to understand...
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...Although the integration of the arts is universally beneficial to all students, there are some convincing arguments to hold back on adding more arts programs into schools. The main argument, and most compelling, is the lack of funding for such programs. In recent years, there has simply been more importance placed upon math and science programs than the arts, with nearly $3 billion cut from arts funding in the last year (Wallace). However, this lack of state and federal funding does not definitively stand in the way of arts integration in schools. For instance, multiple schools can collaborate on the costs of adding arts classes, such as having each school create one extra art class, and allowing students from neighboring schools to attend...
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...I disagree on not letting schools have “Arts and Music in Public Schools”. Arts and Music in Public Schools, are a fun thing to learn to the students. If students learn Arts and Music, they can interact with other students and find out what’s so fun about School Art. Students can find their own talent on what they want to be when they grow up and try something new. Arts and Music can be a good thing for the students education. When they fill out a form for college, and the head minister looks at it and finds out that they did any Arts and Music, they’ll know that you’ll have the strength to be at their school because learning about Art and Music is a hard thing to do but it’s also a good way towards their future. It’s never a bad thing to try...
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...Many times in public schools, there is a common chain of what is first to go when budgets are cut. Ninety percent of the time, arts education is the first to be lost. Arts education refers to any education in the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and visual arts. There are many benefits to art programs in school. Most of the time, people don’t realize how much the arts affect a child’s life. These programs give children a safe place to explore their imagination or express their emotions. Many aspects of one's life are affected by having arts in the curriculum. Art courses in education can help to improve social and academic skills in a child's development throughout their life. The Arts Education Partnership broke down the different parts...
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...Since 2008, more than 80% of school districts in the United States have had their funds slashed to the bare minimum to where programs are being dropped left and right. The first programs to go are often disciplines that fall into the fine arts category: such as music, art and foreign language. However, the problem is not just the lack of funds, but the increase in demands on testing on “more important” core classes. Across the nation, this testing obsession has kicked side fine arts in most schools that had once had been vital places of learning, have been reduced itself to mere test prep factories where “achievement” means nothing more than scoring well on a bubble test. In reality, fine arts in a school’s curriculum are just as, if not, more...
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...Fine Arts and Art itself has always been around, and there’s constantly been speculation about whether or not makes kids smarter/ gives them a head in school. Now, due to recent studies, it’s been proven that Fine Arts due in fact help kids in school, there is Evidence of its effectiveness in reducing student dropout, raising student attendance, developing better team players, fostering a love for learning, improving greater student dignity, enhancing student creativity, and producing a more prepared citizen for the workplace for tomorrow can be found documented in studies held in many varied settings, from school campuses, to corporate America (Bryant) Which leads to a whole new question now, of why? The arts can encourage and motivate kids...
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...Capital Letters 1. The first word in a sentence or direct quotation • The ice-cream man said, “Try a frozen bar. They’re delicious.” 2. The word “I” and people’s names • Because I was the first caller in the radio contest, I won two backstage passes to the Lincoln Park concert. My friend Mark Segard went with me. 3. Names of specific places, institutions, and languages • Tim, who lives in Houston and works as a lab technician at Herman Memorial Hospital, grew up on a farm in Woodstock, Ohio. • The signs in the airport terminal were written in Spanish, English, and French. 4. Product names: Capitalize the brand name of a product, but not the kind of product it is. • Every morning Joshua has Tropicana orange juice and Kellogg cereal with milk 5. Calendar names: Capitalize the names of the week, months, and holidays. • At first, Thanksgiving was celebrated on the last Thursday in November, but it was changed to the fourth Thursday of the month. 6. Titles: Capitalize the titles of books, television or stage shows, songs, magazines, movies, articles, poems, stories, paper, and so on. • Sitting in the waiting room, Dennis nervously paged through issues of Newsweek and People magazines. • Gwen wrote a paper titled “Portrayal of Women in Rap Music Videos” that was based on videos shown on MTV. Note: The words the, of, a, an, and, and other little, unstressed words are not capitalized when...
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...I chose a painting called In Deep Thought by Alfred Stevens, which can be found at the St. Louis Art Museum in Gallery 217. Stevens painted in it 1881 and it is oil on canvas. It is 18 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. I learned he was known for painting scenes of modern life during his lifetime. The painting shows a woman in a pink dress sitting at a table with her puppy at her feet, near the shore of a port in La Havre, France. In this painting a young woman in a pink dress is gazing out at the sea, sitting at a glass table where her matching hat is resting. The woman’s pink dress is long-sleeved and ruffled at the bottom. Her hat has pink flowers and a black ribbon. It is sitting on the very edge of the clear glass table. The chair she is sitting in is in the only chair by the matching table. The lady has all of her reddish-brown hair pulled back, except for her bangs. She is wearing a simple, silver bracelet on her left wrist. I wish her shoes were visible, but they are lost under her dress. Her small, brown and white dog is sitting near her feet. There is a rock border and a fence separating the shore from where she sits. There are trees covering half of her view outward. It is a cloudy day, and in the distance you can see several ships out to sea. This painting has a vertical line and horizontal line variation, like the one that can be found in our art book (Frank 22). Several shapes are noticeable in this painting. The ground beneath the woman’s feet appears as a triangle, the rocks that...
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...“Missy Thoma Professor Murphy English 131 9 October 2014 The Arts in Public Schools: Is It a Priority or Not? Everyone has taken some type of art program in school. Whether it was music, art, drama, creative writing, or visual arts. Some students may have learned something from it like any other class. The arts programs are very important to many students especially when they reach high school. They want to take that class and turn it into their career. Though some say it is not an important class and a distraction to the more important classes such as math, science, and English. The art and music programs in public schools are very important to the education for students. There is a debate that is currently suggesting that the education of art and music is linked to the “Educate America Act of 2000, which outlines the goals and standards for the nation’s education” (Flynn, 2011). According to the “Educate America Act lists arts education as a part of the core curriculum, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the NEA are the federal agencies that are responsible for the federal funds for arts education; and to them the arts education is one of the lowest priorities” (Flynn, 2011). Many public schools offer art and music education at the levels of elementary school. It is a more local decision that is made to fund art and music education in higher school levels, which higher levels provide art and music classes that are optional to the students (Flynn, 2011). Seven...
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...of families needing two incomes to survive has led to the depression and lack of guidance that is needed to nurture our children today. This is why Martial Arts instruction in school may increase confidence, self-esteem and decrease bullying in schools. Parents often have the false impression that martial arts will lead to their child learning violence, when in fact, the increase in confidence that martial arts brings is one of its perks. Kids will have the confidence along with the skills to be able to achieve higher levels in any art or physical activity. Kids can apply that same amount of confidence to other aspects of their life. For example, it allows the student to really focus on the issue at hand. Another benefit about martial arts is the confidence for socialization with peers, instructors and adults. Martial arts show the student to treat everyone with respect and to carry themselves with honor. During the course of my research, I found that, it’s rare to find a martial art that even mentions why, where and how violence happens. (Whether it's individual self-defense, a domestic violence situation, or war, a practitioner needs to understand what they're up against to effectively learn to defend against it. Prevention strategies can and should account for most self-defense. They're nonexistent in most martial art training.), (Functional self-defense .org, 2014.) As the saying goes; “There are no bad students only bad teachers.” The Karate Kid (1984). I agree with only...
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...A Charter School is a school established to provide students and parents with more choices in the types of educational opportunities and programs that are available within the public school system. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board approves of community-based charter schools. All Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) Charter School programs are open to student’s applications who reside within the school district. Starting a charter school is truly a community effort. However, the rewards we may find by creating a new educational option for children are well worth the effort. The first question we want to answer is why do we want to start a charter school? As a charter developer, we need to have a clear answer to this question. Matanuska-Susitna Valley residents desire a school that provides a rich and comprehensive educational program for students with talents and potential in dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, and visual art or media arts. This school will provide students and parents with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system to maximize each student’s special talents. Our graduates will increase the quality of their life, the lives of people who surround them, and the respective communities of the Valley. There are many people interested in helping to start our charter school waiting for recruitment. These founders will include parents, teachers, school principals...
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...Having The Arts in Elementary Schools A Review of the Literature Detra B. Bynum Capella University Author Note This paper was prepared for Education 5200, taught by Leonard Snyder Abstract My literature review will show a connection between cognition, social and emotional development and the arts. Some students in schools where the arts are an integral part of the academic program tend to do better in school than those students where that is not the case. It will also show why it is so important to have art and music classes in the elementary schools. It will also show how the teachers can help develop cognitive skills by using the arts in their lesson plan. They can intertwine the creative arts curriculum with other subject such as reading; math and science to develop better studying, concentration and listening skills. Studies will show that children need expressionism with the other subjects to complete their learning process. The review will show why the arts need to be implemented back in the curriculum of elementary schools. We have the opinions of others, that younger school children should be required to study math language; science and history are those people who think it may not be necessary to learn art and music. Contrary to those people's viewpoint, my strong opinion regarding that statement is that younger school children have to be required to study art and music. This literature review may point out that art and music...
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...THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAM IN THE ARTS IN THE SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL: TOWARDS AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM BY: ELLEN S. TALACTAC MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAM IN THE ARTS IN THE SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL: TOWARDS AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM The Special Program in the Arts (SPA) is a nationwide program of the Department of Education for the students with potential or talent in the arts namely: music, visual arts, theater arts, media arts, creative writing and dance. The school shall offer a comprehensive secondary educational program centered on the arts, covering a range of art forms and disciplines. Arts education is an integral component of a balanced educational program in all year 2 levels, which provides the background for post - secondary level work. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY San Francisco High School was chosen as one of the schools to implement the Special Program in the Arts because it satisfies the criteria set in the guidelines. (DECS Memorandum # 135 s. 2001) The SPA school is / has: * A financially autonomous regular high school * Is strategically located in the region and surrounded by resources such as libraries, museums, instructional...
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...Syed Akeel Bilgrami Quite often, those associated with the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture at Karachi have been asked: - What was the need for the Indus Valley School to spend so much time and effort to re-locate an old building on its campus, and, - Why the Nusserwanjee Building? The answers to these questions can be linked to the day, May 1, 1991, when twelve prominent architects of the city brain-stormed at the Indus Valley School to evolve a design criteria for its new campus. The school had just acquired a plot and since it was the first time that a custom–designed campus for an Art and Architecture institution was being built in Pakistan, it was expected the brain-storming would generate some fresh, innovative, ideas. Interestingly however, the consensus at the end of the day, reached, perhaps half in jest, was that an ideal environment for a school of art is in and around an old building, and that the School should find such a building and move into it! Hardly a week later, Shahid Abdulla, one of the founders of the Indus Valley School, excitedly called to say he had found a beautiful old building, right in the heart of Kharadar, which was for sale and about to be demolished. Before one could express one’s reservations about the location, he quickly added, “We will save it and move it to the campus in Clifton.” What he had seen was the hundred-year-old Nusserwanjee Building, a stone structure in two blocks of three and four storeys with large halls...
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