Objectivity

Based on this article, the author feels that art has played an unimportant role in schools and academic achievement. The author states that "arts educators have tried to strengthen the position of the arts in our schools by arguing that the arts can be used to buttress the 3Rs. The arts, they said, could help children learn to read and write and calculate and understand scientific concepts. The reasoning was clear: perhaps schools under pressure would value the arts because the arts strengthened skills in “valued” areas. This approach became a favored strategy in the United States for keeping the arts in the schools and for making sure that every child had access to arts education." The purpose of this site is to argue that art in schools is typically unimportant.