9/22/03
American School Board Journal
American School Board Journal, October 2003, "Protecting Our Children from the Arts; Ten not-so-serious recommendations for policy makers." By Heather Descollonges and Elliot Eisner.

9/9/2001
The Arts Come Back to Class
After decades of pummeling by Proposition 13, theater, music and drawing are slowly returning to the schoolroom. But educators face new hurdles, including a lack of qualified...

3/15/2001
Advocates worry that basics, testing will crowd out arts
Arts advocates say the push to get students back to basics and a growing emphasis on standardized tests threaten to cut into arts programs in public schools.

03/01/2001
Playing Digital
Music class begins at James Blake High School near Washington, D.C.: "Go ahead, boot up your computers." That's Shirley Letcher, calling out instructions from the...

2/6/2001
Musical genius in the genes?
Chemical analysis of the hair, which was famously taken by a young musician the day after Beethoven died and preserved in a locket, has already solved the mystery of the cause of the chronic...

1/1/2001
Learning By Leaps
Through dance, these students are learning to make maps. They count steps to understand distance in feet, and they estimate space between each other. And after the music quiets and they tie...

12/15/2000
Combining math and music -- a new science
A study of second-graders is examining effects of music training and spatial reasoning on math ability.

12/13/2000
Sinatra School's in Works
How many celebrities does it take to open a school in New York City? Quite a few - when it comes to the Frank Sinatra Community School of the Arts.

10/11/2000
That's Science. That's Art.
'Piaget!" the older of my two nephews offered as I tried to explain what it is that I do as a cognitive developmental psychologist. "Didn't Piaget do that stuff with clay on how children learn?"

10/8/2000
Artfully Improving Education
Studies link participation in the arts to improved test scores. At one private school in Fullerton, academic achievement goes hand in hand with drawing, dancing and acting.

9/21/2000
Music-thinking link doubtful, study says
In findings that will dismay some advocates for the arts, a Harvard study casts doubt on the link between the arts and academic achievement.

8/29/2000
The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows
The arts have typically played a relatively unimportant role in American schools. Arts educators have tried to strengthen the position of the arts in our schools by arguing that the arts can be used to buttress the 3Rs.