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Integrating Arts to Improve Academics

Iowa Public Radio, John Pemble… At Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, art teacher Lisa Hesse begins her morning class by standing with her students in a circle as relaxing music plays. The music is a cue for the fourth-graders…

February 16, 2015 // TA Staff // Coverage, Featured

Can quality arts education bring low performing schools back from the brink?

Lesley University website, Louise Pascale… Michelle Obama thinks so. As honorary chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), the first lady is working to reinvigorate our nation’s schools through a trailblazing initiative called Turnaround Arts.…

February 6, 2015 // TA Staff // Coverage, Featured

NAMM 2015: Turnaround study touts benefits of arts education for kids

LA Times, Randy Lewis… Though topics at the National Assn. of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention in Anaheim most often trend toward musicians, musical instruments and how they interact, one panel at the annual industry gathering tilted in a decidedly socially…

January 23, 2015 // TA Staff // Coverage, Featured

Arts education program brings opportunities to Hoopa school

Times-Standard, Aaron West… Hoopa Valley Elementary School, one of the 10 schools in California and 35 nationwide to be selected to participate in the Turnaround Arts program, began at its foray into the innovative arts campaign at the beginning of…

January 23, 2015 // TA Staff // Coverage, Featured

Turnaround Arts: Making a Difference for Northside Schools

Des Moines Public Schools, “For The Record”… Maybe some of the folks passing through Capital Square Wednesday over the noon hour wondered why all those spooky kids weren’t in school instead of flashmobbing downtown. But they were. It was the…

October 31, 2014 // TA Staff // Coverage, Featured

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Integrating Arts to Improve Academics

Can quality arts education bring low performing schools back from the brink?

NAMM 2015: Turnaround study touts benefits of arts education for kids

Arts education program brings opportunities to Hoopa school

Turnaround Arts: Making a Difference for Northside Schools

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