With the increasing pressure to achieve high math and literacy test scores, the visual arts have been limited and students have found themselves being tested constantly.
"Arts, in short, have the greatest impact of any subject on standardized tests." -James Catterall, 2009
While literacy and math are essential skills, the visual arts will help students make connections in reading and math far deeper and more meaningful, by engaging them and motivating them to create unique ways to solve problems and explain new ideas.
"I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art." -Kermit the Frog
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With the increasing pressure to achieve high math and literacy test scores, the visual arts have been limited and students have found themselves being tested constantly.
"Arts, in short, have the greatest impact of any subject on standardized tests." -James Catterall, 2009
While literacy and math are essential skills, the visual arts will help students make connections in reading and math far deeper and more meaningful, by engaging them and motivating them to create unique ways to solve problems and explain new ideas.
"I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art." -Kermit the Frog