Catalyst Chicago
Common sense on Common Core
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What the education world needs right now is a dose of perspective and common sense when it comes to the Common Core.
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Arts education should focus on academics
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We will accomplish little if we only align our energies with social remediation. After all, if you don’t think arts educators should be held accountable for overall student achievement, why should they be working in a school?
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Arts education essential for city’s future
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Without robust arts education, the city’s cultural future will be drained of promise. Without the skills acquired through artistic habits of mind, our children will be ill-equipped to compete in a global economy.
Catalyst Chicago
Arts education: Teaching what technology cannot
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Recently, Paul Sznewajs and Nick Rabkin made an introductory case for restoring the arts into Chicago Public Schools. They noted that past research has shown the positive benefits of arts instruction, especially for low-income students. There is irony here in the word “past.” For, indeed, over the last several decades, reams of research has been produced to validate the role of the arts, while in the same span of time, which Sznewajs and Rabkin make note of, we have seen that very same role significantly diminished.