{"id":23162,"date":"2011-09-13T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:19:34","slug":"10-salient-studies-on-the-arts-in-education-onlinecolleges-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/09\/13\/10-salient-studies-on-the-arts-in-education-onlinecolleges-net\/","title":{"rendered":"10 salient studies on the arts in education [onlinecolleges.net]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecolleges.net\/2011\/09\/06\/10-salient-studies-on-the-arts-in-education\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 salient studies on the arts in education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from onlinecolleges.net<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A fine arts education \u2014 including music, theater, drawing, painting, or sculpture \u2014 whether in practice or theory, has been a part of any well-rounded curriculum for decades \u2014 but that may be changing.\u00a0 Many schools today are cutting back or eliminating their art programs due to budget constraints.\u00a0 It is estimated that by the end of this year, more than 25% of public high schools will have completely dismantled them.\u00a0 These stats aren\u2019t just bad news for teachers working in the arts.\u00a0 Numerous studies done over the past decade have demonstrated the amazing benefits of such an integral education facet.\u00a0 Students who don\u2019t have access to art classes may not only miss out on a key creative outlet, but might also face greater difficulty mastering core subjects, higher dropout rates and more disciplinary problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You don\u2019t have to take our word for it \u2014 you can read the studies yourself.\u00a0 Here, we\u2019ve listed some of the biggest on the arts in education conducted over the past decade.\u00a0 Taken on by research organizations, college professors and school districts themselves, the studies reveal the power of art to inspire, motivate and educate today\u2019s students.\u00a0 And, of course, demonstrate what a disservice many schools are doing by undervaluing such an integral part of their education and development <\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 salient studies on the arts in education &#8212; from onlinecolleges.net Excerpt: A fine arts education \u2014 including music, theater, drawing, painting, or sculpture \u2014 whether in practice or theory, has been a part of any well-rounded curriculum for decades \u2014 but that may be changing.\u00a0 Many schools today are cutting back or eliminating their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,271,324,434,343,46,256],"tags":[706,278,52,702,730,777,737,4,700],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-curriculum","category-dramatheater","category-education","category-k-12-related","category-music","tag-art","tag-art-history","tag-budgetary","tag-creativity","tag-curriculum","tag-dramatheater","tag-education","tag-k-12","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23166,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}