The arts are not dying in public schools, or at least not in Howard County. Instead, they’re being infused into language arts, social studies, math and science, breathing new life into those subjects ...

The arts subject is usually shrugged away as something that is only for the ‘weak students’. The people who are thought to be not analytical enough are thrown into the extra subjects with or without ...

In their recent Commentary “The Productivity Imperative” (Jan. 7, 2009), Marguerite Roza, Dan Goldhaber, and Paul T. Hill suggest that schools could get better bang for their budget buck if they cut ...

Exposing students to the arts helps them do better in other subjects, recent studies have found. The arts also can be a life preserver for students who otherwise would not succeed in school, says Dr.

David Lundie receives funding from the Culham St Gabriel's Trust for the Research7 project: Religious Education and Social Disadvantage, which funded the research cited in this article. Paul Smalley ...

Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to ...

Through various periods in art history, artists such as Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt and Pablo Picasso have focused on the human form. Yet, say local artists, it’s still quite unusual for contemporary ...

In the next decade, the tests dubbed the “Nation’s Report Card” will include fewer subjects, fewer students, and longer testing times—but potentially more data for states and districts to use. The ...