America is the country of progress and innovation, in order to achieve this in America prioritizes strict memorization and standardized nationwide test scores over creativity. No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002 by President George W. Bush as a re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Cite?). The law demands that public schools nationwide improve educational standards, specifically among disadvantaged students. To achieve this goal, federal initiated testing started in 2005 to determine student’s proficiency in math and reading. If state determined proficiency is failed to be reached three times in a row a school would be subject to outside corrective measures, including possible governance changes (“No Child Left Behind”-Education Week). Due to legislation such as this, and general state and country wide budget cuts, art and creativity in finding less and less of a place in schools around the country. After the laws 2002 signing, 71 percent of the nation's 15,000 schools had cut down on music, art and even history to devote even more class time to math and science(Dillons). In America arts education has been slipping for more than three decades, the result of tight budgets, an ever-growing list of state mandates that have crammed the classroom curriculum, and a public sense that the arts are lovely but not essential. Now with the addition of No Child Left Behind, students bombarded with class after class of math and English are suffering from a lack of creativity in their learning and the rigor of the core classes does not seem to be improving test scores (Cite).
Enid Zimmerman an editor for Art Educator magazine attended a state art education organization meeting and she “found my place at...
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Emotional stimulation is a key part of the arts. Before and during adolescence students go through many emotional changes and experiences. It is important that they find a healthy and natural way to release their concerns and feelings. Art is a considerable alternative to bottling up their emotions or other things a young person may do to release their emotions. For example, when a student creates a piece of art, his or her thoughts, dreams, goals and experiences are put into it “often reflecting an event of significance in their recent past or some element on the canvas that reminds them of a favored person or object or color” (Gardener 16). Likewise, when a student looks at a piece of art, they try to determine the emotion that the artist is trying to convey. This, in affect increases his or her emotional awareness. By putting themselves in another persons position, students develop a greater understanding of the emotions of their peers. The arts also helps students to think critically and view things in a different perspective:
Art is a form of human expression. Art portrays various ideas, feelings such as love, happiness, boredom and sorrow. But sometimes, art is only considered as an extra elective within the school curriculum and just a waste of time. So here today at Palm Beach State college is an irritated professor, who also teaches at Palm Beach State college, Samantha Salzinger gave a speech on “The Importance of Art, ” presented on November 4, 2015, and she argues that art is an important subject and should deemed as a core class. Salzinger begins building her credibility with personal stories and reputable sources, convincing statistics and facts, and successfully engages the audiences
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When I was young, just like any other child, I loved playing with colors. Throughout my childhood, though, art simply meant doodling with crayons or creating some mess. I considered that as my true art. On my birthday, my father bought me one Japanese movie named The Future Boy Conan as a gift. Even though it was my first time watching a Japanese movie, I was enchanted. I developed the patience to learn to draw and continued to study more about arts. The more I drew, the more I felt like I found something, not only in the artworks, but in myself. Art is still my passion and is something that I take pride in. Moreover, arts education allows many individuals to learn about themselves, their cultures, and their community. Unfortunately, due to insufficient funding, many students in the future may not have the opportunity to experience the motivation that art education provides. Every student in America deserves a complete and competitive education that includes the arts. Therefore, art education should be taught in public schools, perhaps now more than ever. As the country becomes increasingly diverse and the workplace more oriented around creativity, arts education is the pivotal key to a successful public school system to ensuring students’ academic achievement, and enriching the positive social development of students.
In education today, art studies are not often viewed as a priority for students and they very frequently get cut from school’s curriculum due to a lack of proper funding. Howeve...
Doctor Feldman teaches that art needs to be meaningful and art students must connect to the information presented, then be able to use it as an experience. Then students can use the experience to create a path to transform the idea into a work of art. He presented that art teachers could show students that life and art are connected and that one could inspire the other. He insisted on educating students in art appreciation through critiques and developed the four-step critique method. In the fi...
Creative people’s openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.
Art and its education are crucial in the development of young children. Therefore, it is of the upmost importance to ensure that our young children are being taught about art and its education in order for them to be successful contributing members of society. June Vail, a professor of dance at Bowdoin College explains, “The arts bring energy and creativity, a kind of learning that can only enhance every other kind of learning. (Vail).” She continues by saying that, “The enterprise of a liberal arts education is integrative, to educate students to be creative and flexible, to harness their energy in a different way (Vail).” Art begins to lay the foundation of success early for young children by developing their motor skills through paining with a paintbrush and drawing with crayons. Furthermore, it also helps promote language development by learning new shapes, colors, and allows them to describe their artistic creation. Lastly, it also helps children improve academically. A report that was done by the Americans for the Arts demonstrates that young people who participated regularly in the arts are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, participate in a math or science fair, or win an award for writing an essay as opposed to students who do not participate in the arts (PBS). As a result of this, it is imperative to ensure that adolescent children of today begin
“Every student in the nation should have an education in the arts.” This is the opening statement of “The Value and Quality of Arts Education: A Statement of Principles,” a document from the nation’s ten most important educational organizations. The basic message is that music and art programs in the schools help our kids and communities in real and substantial ways. There is an abundant amount of facts and information that supports this statement. The benefits of arts education can be narrowed down into 4 basic categories: success in developing intelligence, success in ...
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