{"id":51,"date":"2009-09-20T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-09-20T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:07:00","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/2009\/09\/20\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Encourages Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2009\/09\/studentachivement2.jpg\" alt=\"Participating in the arts enhances student achievement\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2009\/09\/studentachivement2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/588\/2009\/09\/studentachivement2-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Participating in the arts enhances student achievement<\/h5>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Young people who consistantly participate in comprehensive, sequential, and rigorous arts programs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement<\/li>\n<li>3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools<\/li>\n<li>4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair<\/li>\n<li>3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance<\/li>\n<li>4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently<\/li>\n<li>Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently<\/li>\n<li>Read for pleasure nearly twice as often<\/li>\n<li>Perform community service more than four times as often<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;For many of America&#8217;s youth, public schools serve as the major provider of formalized arts instruction. Therefore, it is critical that the arts maintain their status as a core academic subject within a school district&#8217;s educational mission and that they are adequately funded.&#8221; &#8211;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americansforthearts.org\/information_services\/arts_education_community\/resource_center_001.asp\" target=\"_self\">Americans for the Arts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 5\">(&#8220;Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations,&#8221; Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participating in the arts enhances student achievement &#8211; Young people who consistantly participate in comprehensive, sequential, and rigorous arts programs are: 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}