Arts Integration Works Says Portland’s “Right Brain Initiative”
Posted: 09/07/2014 4:14 pm EDT Updated: 09/10/2014 6:59 am EDT
The Right Brain Initiative (RBI) serving the greater Portland region released a report that confirms “There is a meaningful and quantifiable link between integrated arts education and student learning,” specifically:
• Students’ reading and math scores increase at least 2.5 times
more than the average annual rate of increase.• This growth is even greater for English Language Learners. Student’s scores
increased 10 times more after schools partnered with Right Brain.• For all children, scores continued to rise as schools engaged more deeply
with the Initiative, with a particularly large rate of increase for English
Language Learners.
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