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Download full textAlperstein, Cory Ann; Weyl, Ronnie B. – 1992
This handbook seeks to provide advocates with the tools they need to encourage arts education in the schools, particularly in New Jersey. The document includes background material on arts education and advocacy, a set of 11 reasons why the arts are basic to education, and an explanation of what constitutes a quality arts education. Under the major…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art Education, Basic Skills, Citizen Participation
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1998
The purpose of New Jersey's Visual and Performing Arts Standards is to improve student achievement in arts education, not arts-as-entertainment, not art-assembly projects, not art-as-activity. An education in the arts requires curricular scope and sequence and the intellectual rigor of experiential learning. The Visual and Performing Arts…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Art Education, Curriculum Development, Dance Education
