Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents ix
• Part One Conditions 3
• Chapter One: One Nation, Undercultured and Underqualified 7
• Chapter Two - the Arts and Economics: Opportunities Missed, Misunderstood, and Minimalized 15
• Chapter Three - Society and the Schools: A Dynamic Relationship 32
• Part Two Justification 35
• Chapter Four - Recognizing the Arts as Forms of Intelligence 39
• Chapter Five - Strong Arts, Strong Schools 55
• Chapter Six - Cheating Our Children: Why Every Child Needs the Arts 57
• Chapter Seven - Improving General Education Through the Arts 67
• Chapter Eight Developing New Audiences 74
• Part Three Curriculum 83
• Chapter Nine All Arts, All Students 85
• Chapter Ten the Arts as Academic, Basic, and Comprehensive 99
• Chapter Eleven Whose Culture Should Be Taught? 112
• Chapter Twelve the Shameful Neglect of Creativity 119
• Chapter Thirteen Cultivating the Arts in High School 128
• Chapter Fourteen the Correlation with Academic Achievement 138
• Part Four Reform 149
• Chapter Fifteen Redefining the Mission: Value-Centered Arts Education 153
• Chapter Sixteen the Arts as Catalysts for Educational Reform 161
• Chapter Seventeen Overhauling Teacher Education: Can It Be Done? 169
• Chapter Eighteen an Agenda: What Should We Expect? 179
• Chapter Nineteen Prospects: How Do We Get There? 193
• Notes 205
• Index 217

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