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Art Education

Hana Drew

Mrs. Crist

English IV

2/23/17

Essential question: How does low funding to Art Education affect students

and schools?

Working Thesis: Low funding to art education can be helped by grants and

smaller cuts than a whole budget cut.

Refined Thesis: Art education in schools receive low funding which affects

student achievement, can help close low and high income gap, and help

sustain learning in other subjects.

Annotated Bibliography

Driscoll, Sally and Simone Isadora Flynn. "Arts Funding: An Overview." Points

of View: Arts

Funding, 3/1/2016, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=pwh&AN=23173035&site=pov-live.

The overview goes on about the disagreement of the issue if arts

should be funded through public or private matters. They talk about key
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points such as understanding the discussion, history, and art funding today.

There is controversy about how funding should be received publicly because

people may not want to pay money for something they feel is offensive. The

American Associations of Museums think that art is opinion based and that

limitation on funding to art education itself is breaking the first amendment.

The art funding plummeted downwards as the economy experienced

hardship. Art supporters are trying to make art a greater priority to funding. I

picked this article because it covers most of the information on history

throughout the key points they made.

PR, Newswire. "Next Week: First Lady Michelle Obama, the President's

Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Department of Education,

and the National Association of Music Merchants to Highlight the Importance

of Arts Education." ["Turnaround-arts-NAMM"]. PR Newswire US, 15 May

2014. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=pwh&AN=201405151551PR.NEWS.USPR.DC28955&site=po

v-live.

This article talks about how the National Association of Music

Merchants (NAMM), performers and artists participated in multiple events

throughout the week to show the importance of art and music education is to

student achievement. Michelle Obama visited and hosted the turnaround

schools and really highlighted the importance of art. Many students who are
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involved in the art programs at school are more likely to succeed and be

noticed for academic achievement. I chose this article based on the

information on how art education helps turn around low-performing schools,

narrow the achievement gap, and increase student engagement through the

arts.

Liptak, Matthew. "Art Takes No Breaks." Teen Ink, vol. 17, no. 6, Feb. 2006, p.

19. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=pwh&AN=24254748&site=pov-live.

The author goes on about how the arts have been neglected but it is all

around us and is important to society. He states that art expands the mind

and communication and helps with critiquing and if you take that away you

are depriving a students experience. Communities who are artless lose their

culture and have to find another way to show expression. Art is more than

just painting it is emotion, expression, and a lifestyle to others and it is

important. I chose this article based on his points of the real importance of

art in classrooms and communities. The author gave a better range of

emotion and expression on his passion of art so it really helped persuade me

to using it as a source.
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