Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling

Because of cuts in school budgets, coupled with anxiety about an apparent decline in basic academic skills, many parents, educators, and policy makers have come to view arts education -- the teaching of music, painting, dancing, or creative writing -- as a luxury, an unnecessary drain on time and money better applied to more practical learning. But in Strong Arts, Strong Schools, one of America's leading champions of arts in the schools, the late Charles Fowler, provides compelling evidence...