After Years Crouching, Arts Ed Raising Its Hand Again
From Anne Midgette for The Washington Post:
Today, more and more policymakers think it is the arts, after all, that can motivate kids, engage them and help them develop 21st-century skills such as teamwork and innovative thinking — in sum, be the key to their salvation.
The children at Savoy, accordingly, are being bombarded with arts. Every kid in the third, fourth and fifth grades gets 45 minutes a day of music and movement training in addition to regular arts classes. The school is phasing in the Suzuki method, an early-childhood music teaching program, next year. Washington takes a lively interest in “her” school, holding Skype chats. Then there are special visitors, such as Ma — who finally makes his entrance and is promptly enveloped in handshaking and introductions to the adults while the cameras click. The kids are still waiting.