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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

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