Teachers say the arts help them connect across disciplinesbringing music into math class, sculpture into social studies, drawing into science and more. Painting and ceramics, music and dance, photography and filmthese arent merely hobbies; they are some of humankinds most liberating pathways to creativity and catharsis. Helping struggling students could involve steps ranging from an expanded school schedule and summer programs, to smaller classes, teacher aids and tutors, and counseling, she says. Parents report that arts programs make schools feel tighter knit and more inclusive. Anyone whos stood before an ancient sculpture and felt wonder, or listened to a piece of classical music and felt peace, or gazed at a Renaissance painting and experienced the sublime grasps the power of art to transmit emotion across the ages.
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