You get into your car and go to turn the radio on; no sound comes out. You go home, sit on the couch, and turn the television on; no programs are playing. You go to a museum; the walls are blank. It’s Christmas time; there’s no carolers or Boston Pops. That’s what a world would be like without visual or performing arts and our future world is very vulnerable to this catastrophic possibility because schools continue to cut the arts programs from their schools and their curriculums. To avoid this cultural loss as well as to preserve a curriculum that produces well-rounded and fully educated students, visual and performing arts must continue to be supported and provided in schools.
One of the major questions asked when it comes to supporting …show more content…
Winner and co-researchers of Project Zero that “…students who take art also generally do well in school…this may be because academically strong schools tend to have strong arts programs, or because families who value academic achievement also value achievement in the arts” (Pogrebin, 2007). But, as stated above, this is not always true. According to the Center for Music Research at Florida State University, “[s]tudents at risk of not successfully completing their high school educations cite their participation in the arts as reasons for staying in school” (Barry, Taylor, Walls, and Wood, 1990) and many of them did not come from academically strong schools or families that valued academic or artistic achievement. Despite Winner’s belief stated above, her and her co-researchers, like many others, do believe that the arts are valuable; however, they believe that arts should be valued for what they are and not what they do for the other subjects. Their study also found that the arts do have effects on other non-education traits that are valuable to a successful life because “[s]tudents who study the arts…are taught to see better, to envision, to persist, to be playful and learn from mistakes, to make critical judgments and justify such judgments [effectively]” (Pogrebin,2007). This again shows that arts education provides mind stimulating lessons that not only teach their art form but also teach attributes that will help students to …show more content…
Not only do these programs help students to achieve their full potential, they provide the necessary self-expression and attention that a growing, young mind needs, and can also “…help children develop social and emotional skills...” (Zubrzycki, 2016) that are necessary to
One of the major questions asked when it comes to supporting …show more content…
Winner and co-researchers of Project Zero that “…students who take art also generally do well in school…this may be because academically strong schools tend to have strong arts programs, or because families who value academic achievement also value achievement in the arts” (Pogrebin, 2007). But, as stated above, this is not always true. According to the Center for Music Research at Florida State University, “[s]tudents at risk of not successfully completing their high school educations cite their participation in the arts as reasons for staying in school” (Barry, Taylor, Walls, and Wood, 1990) and many of them did not come from academically strong schools or families that valued academic or artistic achievement. Despite Winner’s belief stated above, her and her co-researchers, like many others, do believe that the arts are valuable; however, they believe that arts should be valued for what they are and not what they do for the other subjects. Their study also found that the arts do have effects on other non-education traits that are valuable to a successful life because “[s]tudents who study the arts…are taught to see better, to envision, to persist, to be playful and learn from mistakes, to make critical judgments and justify such judgments [effectively]” (Pogrebin,2007). This again shows that arts education provides mind stimulating lessons that not only teach their art form but also teach attributes that will help students to …show more content…
Not only do these programs help students to achieve their full potential, they provide the necessary self-expression and attention that a growing, young mind needs, and can also “…help children develop social and emotional skills...” (Zubrzycki, 2016) that are necessary to