Positive Impact Of Arts Integration On The English Language Arts
The authors argued that arts education had a broader impact in schools and students. It allowed them to improve their academic results in other subject areas. Their analysis and eventual conclusions were based a longitudinal study of a thorough multi-art integration model that was implemented in public elementary schools in the Los Angeles area. They placed the focus on the importance of standardized test scores and uncovered that schools that infused art concepts into lessons about other topics realized “consistent and significant gains in student proficiency on standardized tests of English Language Arts (ELA) when compared to matched comparison school sites with standalone arts programming.” (Peppler, Powell, Thompson, Catterall, 2014) The school analysis will prove useful in analyzing the Newark context and explore whether or not these findings will apply in an environment plagued by other