PCAH Turnaround Arts Initiative Featured on NPR
Submitted by Steve on April 17, 2013
From Elizabeth Blair for National Public Radio's All Things Considered:
Over the years, there have been a lot of claims about the benefits of the arts on the mind: Listening to Mozart makes you smarter; playing an instrument makes you better at math. One program — funded in part by the federal government — is putting these theories to the test.
The Turnaround Arts Initiative, spearheaded by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, is using an intensive arts curriculum to try and improve eight low-performing schools.