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Analysis Of Why Schools Are Cutting Fine Arts Education By Engebretsen

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"Education and the Fine Arts." Education and the Fine Arts
This article, “Why Schools are Cutting Fine Arts Education” is about why schools are cutting the arts. With the author being unknown, but we see that the author uses clear examples on why the arts is being cut over another curriculum. Throughout this article the author tends to use more pathos than anything with personal experiences to invoke the reader to do something over the budget cuts.
Throughout the text of this article I saw that the author used vivid examples to help make the point of why the arts should be cut if they’re not going to help with the funds. Though she refutes her original proposal on why the arts should be cut in the first place.
The author uses more personal …show more content…

"The Top 10 Ways to Support Arts Education." ARTS Blog
Kristen Engebretsen talks about the top ten ways you can support the arts by knowing the facts, getting involved politically and assessing your school’s strengths and gaps. Engebretsen mentions in the opening of this blogpost on why she decided to write the top 10 ways to support arts education. The main goal of this blogpost is to inform parents of students participating in the arts on recent budget cuts to the arts and letting the know what they can do to help keep the arts in schools.
Through evaluating this article, I found that this article is more for the parents of students who participate in the arts rather than it being directed to school boards. One thing that really stuck with me while reading this blogpost was a way to support the arts was to measure your local school district’s infrastructure.
She also states that she got the idea from a colleague by the name of Randy Cohen’s Top 10 Reason to Support the Arts, though she presents her own. Engebretsen mentions the reasoning for writing this blogpost was because she received an email from a concerned person. Regarding recent budget cuts to the arts and wanting information what they can do to help keep the arts in the schools. (211 …show more content…

She starts with where the arts are currently in American schools, where under this she mentions things such as budget cuts, emphasis on the core curriculum, and disparities in accessing art education. Once we start getting to the center of the article she talks about the benefits of art education where under this bullet point she mentions how it improves performance, as higher graduation rates, inspiration and creativity, child development, and at-risk youth. In closing she talks about how we can bring the art programs back to schools, this article not only provides evidence on why need to keep the arts but how we can keep the arts in schools. (287

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