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Author Noblit, George W

Title Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform : the A+ Schools Program
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An Unusual Development; Chapter 3 Arts in Education: From Threatened Curriculum to a Way to Reform Schools; Chapter 4 Turning the Vision into Reality; Chapter 5 Reform Persistence in A+ Schools; Chapter 6 School Identity and Arts Integration; Chapter 7 Sustaining Arts-based School Reform; Chapter 8 Sustaining Change: The Difference the Arts Make in Schools; Chapter 9 Creative and Lasting School Reform: Lessons from the Arts; Appendix: Valuing A+: The Research Strategy; Notes; References
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Summary This comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of arts in education initiatives, based on the A+ School Program, discusses the political, fiscal, and curricular implications inherent in taking the arts seriously and offers a model for implementation and evaluation that can be widely adapted in other schools and school districts
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Subject Arts.
Education.
Arts -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States -- Case studies
School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies
School improvement programs
Arts -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Arts
Education
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Corbett, H. Dickson
Wilson, Bruce L
McKinney, Meredith
ISBN 9780203887356
0203887352