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Jonathan Rappaport

Arts skills are life skills

By Jonathan Rappaport
June 12, 2007

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RECENTLY, THE Massachusetts Department of Education set about the important task of creating a recommended curriculum to increase student readiness for college work. The department should be commended for focusing on this important project, known as MassCore, but it is disturbing that the recommended core curriculum contains no arts component. (Full article: 614 words)

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