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First lady: Arts education good for good schools

Associated Press… Delivering a forceful argument on the role of the arts in education, Michelle Obama said Tuesday that it isn’t something to be introduced after student test scores go up but is a critical element of achieving those higher…

May 20, 2014 // TA Staff // Coverage

President’s Turnaround Arts Program Expanded

Huffington Post, John M. Eger… First lady Michelle Obama, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), the U.S. Department of Education, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and a number of top performers and artists met…

May 20, 2014 // TA Staff // Coverage

Jason Mraz to Burbank Elementary : ‘I’m Yours’

UT San Diego, Maureen Magee… Grammy award-winning musician Jason Mraz has adopted Burbank Elementary in San Diego, the latest partnership to come from the White House’s celebrity-embraced initiative to turn around underperforming schools with the arts, the Obama administration announced…

May 20, 2014 // TA Staff // Coverage

With arts, an Anacostia school is reborn

The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus… When Principal Patrick Pope arrived at Savoy Elementary School in the blighted Anacostia neighborhood in March 2011, his impression was bleak: “It was the saddest school I’d ever been in.” Which is saying something, given…

May 16, 2014 // TA Staff // Coverage

Arts as Antidote for Academic Ills

New York Times, Patricia Cohen… Stationed in front of one of his large self-portraits, the artist Chuck Close raised his customized wheelchair to balance on two wheels, seeming to defy the laws of gravity. The chair’s unlikely gymnastics underlined the…

December 18, 2012 // TA Staff // Coverage

White House Committee Launches Arts Initiative to Help Turn Around Low-Performing Schools

Turnaround Arts… Today the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced the launch of a new arts education initiative to help turn around low-performing schools, developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House…

April 23, 2012 // TA Staff // Press Releases

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First lady: Arts education good for good schools

President’s Turnaround Arts Program Expanded

Jason Mraz to Burbank Elementary : ‘I’m Yours’

With arts, an Anacostia school is reborn

Arts as Antidote for Academic Ills

White House Committee Launches Arts Initiative to Help Turn Around Low-Performing Schools

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