People have always been wondering how to improve success. How can you? If the kid doesn't try, people punish to give them a fearful motive. Have you ever tried a tutor?According to Brett Zongker, Charlotte Observer, two actresses plan to help the Obama Administration turn schools around with the arts. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington pledged to use this strategy to transform eight specific schools.
Research is going to be demonstrated to prove art can change behavior problems and increase success. Its going to be a two-year initiative focusing on eight poverty struck elementary and middle schools.
They are located in New Orleans; Boston; Washington; Des Moines; Iowa; Portland, Ore; Bridgeport, Conn.; and Lame Deer, Mont. Half of the dropout rate is due to fifteen percent of the nation's schools. Yet fifty percent is less likely to even offer the classes that may help increase the overall academic skills.
Artists from the president's committee plan to bring in programs and raise funds to continue their reign of success after the two years. Spoken with inspiration in mind, Dana Gioia said:
Art is an Irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.For more information, visit: Turn Around: Arts
Learning in and through the arts is foundational to early childhood education. MCFHC is comprised primarily of children from families with multiple challenges that typically are identified as indicators of poor student achievement. The mission of Arts Impact and PSESD is to eliminate the achievement gap by 2020 and insure access to quality education for ALL children. Partnering with MCFHC helps us fulfill that mission. MCFHC has a family centered culture: a place where parents, teachers, and older siblings are involved in a collaborative way to help insure that the pre-school children will be ready for kindergarten. This collaborative approach to education fits well with the Arts Impact model of integrating multiple ways of knowing and showing.
MCFHC stands for "Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center" and is a non-profit human services agency. The MCFHC is providing support to children and families with any type of background.
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