Across the country, schools that integrate the arts into the fabric of the school day and across the curriculum defy educational odds and expectations. These schools demonstrate that the arts are profoundly cognitive and engaging and that arts integration is a strategy within the reach of schools even in the poorest communities. Putting the Arts in the Picture makes a powerful and original argument for placing the arts at the center of educational renewal. The authors investigate the success of arts integrated schools and the programs that have supported them, and explain why arts integration has such cognitive power. Putting the Arts in the Picture places arts integration within the long arc of efforts to realize the democratic promise of public education and examines how other nations have mobilized the arts to focus young people’s need to learn and grow. Throughout, the authors suggest practical strategies—for educators, policymakers, school reformers, philanthropists, and parents—that can make arts integration broadly available to the children who need it most.

Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century

Arts & Photography

Nick Rabkin

Robin Redmond

History & Criticism

Columbia College Chicago Press

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Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century