Education News for Adults: Axing Art and Music
Education News for Adults
It's Testing Time in Florida, and this article documents schools canceling art or music instruction and shifting the money so they can hire another reading teacher. Is this happening in your state?
Read the whole article here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-parts01mar01,0,6471124.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
Should schools trade the arts for more reading and math? What do you think? Comment on this article here
posted by Karen Cole @ 8:44 AM
2 Comments:
I believe that cutting out the art and music classes is the worst thing the schools can do to these kids and their development.
The fine arts provide students with opportunities to synthesize and apply the concrete concepts taught in math, science, and language arts. In addition, students learn to recognize the value of differences, while learning to recognize the commonalities of humanity. In today's world, we need to teach that more than ever. Cutting arts out of schools is foolish and short-sighted. I believe we need to start integrating the arts, not eliminating them.
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