Anything Is Possible Taos School Children Display Their Creativity at Millicent Rogers Museum by Rick Romancito

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Those who champion the arts in schools were dealt a major blow when researchers Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Project Zoo released a 2000 study that claimed arts classes failed to improve the overall performance of school children.

It can be argued that this study led to a perception among some administrators that the arts were a waste of time and taxpayer money, which might be better spent by focusing more on math and English scores. Of course, not long after, we had the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act of the Bush Administration.

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Anything Is Possible Taos School Children Display Their Creativity at Millicent Rogers Museum by Rick Romancito

"No Child Left Behind has predictably made it so that schools can't meet the standards and forces education into the private sector," Taos High School counselor Bette Craig said in a December story about her school bei...

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