{"id":434,"date":"2011-03-30T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/?p=434"},"modified":"2011-03-30T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T19:12:28","slug":"why-arts-education-is-crucial-and-whos-doing-it-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/2011\/03\/30\/why-arts-education-is-crucial-and-whos-doing-it-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who&#8217;s Doing It Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/arts-music-curriculum-child-development\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-435\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2011\/03\/fea_art_stateofthearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2011\/03\/fea_art_stateofthearts.jpg 390w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2011\/03\/fea_art_stateofthearts-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence,&#8221; sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it&#8217;s closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/arts-music-curriculum-child-development\">Read the rest at Edutopia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence,&#8221; sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it&#8217;s closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}