Putting The Arts In The Picture Reframing Education in the 21st Century

Summary: Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century makes a powerful and original argument for placing the arts at the center of educational renewal. It investigates the success of arts integrated schools and the programs that have helped shape their success. It explains why arts integration has such educational and cognitive power. It places arts integration within the long arc of efforts to rea...lize the democratic promise of public education. It explores how other nations, including some of the most traumatized and impoverished, have mobilized the arts to focus young people's need to learn and grow. It suggests practical strategies-for educators, policymakers, school reformers, philanthropy, and parents-that can make arts integration broadly available to all children, irrespective of their educational level or family income. [read more]