Arts Program in Poor Performing Schools Boosts Learning

VOA News…In some of the lowest performing elementary and middle schools in the U.S., students are learning in an unconventional way.

“I like to act and I like to sing and I like to dance,” said 10-year-old Kayla Driakare, whose teachers at Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary School are incorporating much of what she loves doing into the everyday curriculum.

Her school is a part of a national program called Turnaround Arts, and is an initiative started by former first lady Michelle Obama. It aims to help improve low performing schools through the arts.

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