Why Our Schools Need the Arts

by Jessica Hoffmann Davis

Book Overview

This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy--one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our children. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080774834X
• ISBN13: 9780807748343
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.9"