Teachers say the arts help them connect across disciplinesbringing music into math class, sculpture into social studies, drawing into science and more. Arts education has also been linked to not only higher GPAs and SAT scores but lower suspension and dropout rates. Now that schools are bootstrapping themselves through the most challenging school year in recent memory, the arts could be on their way to permanent extracurricular status. For students, teachers, parentsfor all of usthis is a giant leap backward, not least because studies have shown that students who have the arts included in their core curriculum also see improvement in reading and math. Under the Taliban regime of Islamic fundamentalists from 1996 to 2001, education was severely restricted for females, girls schools were closed, and madrassas or mosque schools provided most education.
girls and men both learn the same thing.
( z0 learn :ARG0 ( z1 and :mod ( z2 both ) :op ( z3 girl ) :op ( z4 man ) ) :ARG1 ( z5 thing :ARG1-of ( z6 same ) ) )
(z0 / learn-01
    :ARG0 (z1 / and
              :mod (z2 / both)
              :op1 (z3 / girl)
              :op2 (z4 / man))
    :ARG1 (z5 / thing
              :ARG1-of (z6 / same-01)))
girls and men both learn the same thing .
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z1 :op2 z4
z1 :mod z2
z0 :ARG0 z1
z5 :ARG1-of z6
z0 :ARG1 z5