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FPA-09-24-2013

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TUSD Fine Arts / OMA

 ARTSmobile debuts to standing room only crowd!

The new American Experience ARTSmobile opened for the first time September 10 at Wright Elementary School.  (And yes, it was standing room only because there are no seats in the ARTSmobile) The students loved the displays, stood tapping in front of the tap dance video, and created wire sculptures to take home.  The ARTSmobile is designed to have students explore the answers to these questions: What art began in America? What American art traditions were influenced by immigrants? What art is uniquely American? How does this art also depict the history of American, both in the creation of the art and what the art shows? The ARTSmobile encourages students to think more deeply about the art and connect it to what they are learning in the classroom. The first ARTSmobile visit also demonstrates vividly the joy that arts education brings to students.

 

 


Bridging the gap with ARTS

In 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts published a research report The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies. To quote from an article in the Pacific Standard "Students from the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder tend to do less well in school than those from more upscale families. But newly published research identifies one sub-group of these youngsters who tend to exceed expectations: those who participate heavily in the arts." The chart to the left describes the Achievement Gap really well. Of the teenagers in the study, 7% of the teenagers studied did not graduate from high school but a whopping 22% of the low SES (socioeconomic status) teenagers with minimal involvement with the arts did not graduate. However, when researchers looked at low SES students with lots of involvement with the arts, only a tiny 4% failed to graduate. That's a huge difference. The studies referenced in the research report followed students over long periods of time and looked at many measures of achievement including test scores, grades, career aspirations, and civic participation and by all measures, low SES students with high involvement with the arts did much better that their counterparts who were not involved with the arts. The research report points out that these type of studies can't prove that arts education caused the difference. However, TUSD's own Opening Minds through the Arts has done that kind of research and showed that the OMA program does increase math, reading and writing scores.  At a time when 1 in 3 Tucson children live in poverty it is vitally important that we continue to provide arts education for all students to ensure that more of them are successful in life. To eliminate the arts from school is to disadvantage 1/3 of our population.

 


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