We found that for the most part, kids were still making gains in both reading and math says Beth Tarasawa, who heads a research team at the Northwest Evaluation Association, an Oregon nonprofit focused on student assessments. Parents report that arts programs make schools feel tighter knit and more inclusive. Arts education has also been linked to not only higher GPAs and SAT scores but lower suspension and dropout rates. Teachers say the arts help them connect across disciplinesbringing music into math class, sculpture into social studies, drawing into science and more. 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.
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