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Ella Prittie

March 22, 2020

English 1101

Penny Sobocinski

Literature Review

Arts Education Partnership, & National Art Education Association. (2019). Visual Arts Matter:

How Visual Arts Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve and Thrive. Arts

Education Partnership. Arts Education Partnership. Retrieved from

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED596318&si

te=eds-live.

1. This source seems a little funky when you first look at it, but I believe that it will be very

helpful to my claim. This source is about the idea that participating in visual art classes is

beneficial to the person as a whole. It’s three main points are that art cultivates skills for

learning, boosts students’ academic achievement, and enhances the educational experience

of traditionally underserved students. This article is very informative about how art is

necessary for development in school. It claims that students who draw before they write

are better writers and art classes develop these ideas to draw. Kids who are invested in art

are more likely to do well in school and are more likely to graduate.

2. I believe that the author’s purpose is to inform people involved in the education system

that arts are an interval part of schooling in America. The audience is probably people

involved in schools like teachers, administrators, students, and parents. It almost looks like

something one of my art teachers would hang up on their wall because of how visually
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appealing it is and how informational it is. It was written in 2019 so it is very current and

seems involved in the current conversation. The authors are the Arts Education

Partnership and National Art Education Association so their goal is to inform people

involved in the school systems on why art classes are necessary to a students’ learning.

3. The authors are the Arts Education Partnership and National Art Education Association

and these are reliable sources because they are big companies that have been dedicated to

the idea of investing in arts in education for years. The data in this article is reliable

because all the information is sourced from reliable places. All the data is coming from

well known and trusted places.

4. When reading through beam I definitely think that argument is the most prominent. There

are loads of data points and why they should be taken into account. The whole format is

points of why people should take art education seriously. The basis of the argument in this

article is why art education helps the student grow as a person and as a scholar. Their

overarching claim is that their essay demonstrates “far-reaching and lasting impact of

visual arts education, including increased math scores, language acquisition, and many

other positive outcomes”. And they don't just claim that they give points to prove that.

Some would say that art is unnecessary because it is just a waste of time when students

could be learning about important things like Math, English, or Science but this article

informs these doubters that “ researchers found that students participating in an arts-rich

curriculum performed better on proficiency tests in math, science and social studies than

students with less access to the arts”, so this shows these doubters that involvement in the

arts can improve students learning in not just the art class but in all classes.
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5. The Arts Education Partnership and National Art Education Association prove that art

education is an interval part of the school system from pre-kindergarten to postsecondary

education. They give data like “when students from low-income backgrounds participate

in the arts, their civic engagement increases compared with peers who don’t engage in the

arts” (Arts Education Partnership) and “researchers found that students who study the arts

tend to score higher on creativity measures” (Arts Education Partnership). These points

give skeptics food for thought. It is hard to think education in the arts is unnecessary in

schools after reading this paper.

Crescencio, A. (2019, April 9). How Do Declining Funds for Art Education Affect Aspiring

Artists? Retrieved December 2, 2019, from

pepperdine-graphic.com/how-do-declining-funds-for-art-education-affect-aspiring-

artists/

1. This article goes over why funding is decreased in schooling in America and how it affects

artists in the modern era. It goes into detail on why the lack of art classes is decreasing

creativity in young people. She goes over how art is good for the student not just for art

purposes, but for life in general.

2. I believe the author’s purpose is to inform the reader on why funding has been decreased

and how it affects the young creative potential artists of today. The audience is probably

anyone looking for information about art education, but more specifically people

interested in art and education. It was written in early 2019 so it has a pretty updated

source of data.
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3. Araceli Crescencio is currently a journalist at CNBC and she was a student at Pepperdine

University when she wrote this essay. Her writing is credible because it was published by

a university and probably reviewed by many to get to this point.

4. This source aligns with background and exhibit in Joseph Bizup’s BEAM. It has some

good information on why this has become an issue and the data behind that. At the

beginning of the essay, it gives the reasons why art funding has decreased and how the

country has dealt with that. Then it goes into detail on how that is affecting the future

creative people of America. It explains why it is so difficult to get more funding because it

isn’t just one person making that decision. This essay gives a lot of proof that art classes

improve creativity by showing that artists who have art classes get into their career sooner

that artists who don’t have these classes in school.

5. A prominent idea for these points is “after adjusting for inflation, art funding throughout

the years has decreased 43.4 percent” (Crescencio). This is a huge issue. One of the

reasons for the decrease is because of the No Child Left Behind Act. The purpose of this is

to have all children educated to be able to test well. Funding for art started dropping most

drastically around 2002, which is when the No Child Left Behind Act was put into place.

Wan, Y., Ludwig, M. J., Boyle, A., & American Institutes for Research (AIR). (2018). Review of

Evidence: Arts Education through the Lens of ESSA. American Institutes for

Research. American Institutes for Research. Retrieved from

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED591872&si

te=eds-live
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1. This is an essay on the funding of arts education funded by ESSA. It tells why they

believe these classes are important and the outcomes of them. It gives good examples of

why there should be these classes and how students have improved from them. There is a

lot of data that is linked to graphs. Which should be helpful, but look a little confusing.

2. ESSA is the Every Student Succeeds Act and is the funding behind this article. A lot of

the information is very over my head, but a good amount of it looks very helpful

especially about the funding, which I haven't covered much of yet. It is very helpful to see

the funding behind what I have learned so far.

3. The writer is ESSA and the author is credible because it is a well-known act that is

implemented all over the country. There is correct data because they are the ones

producing the data.

4. This has a lot of background on my issue. The data behind this gives me ground to stand

on. Ideas like why these classes are helpful will prove my point that children need to be

immersed in these classes to improve as people.

5. In Review of Evidence: Arts Education through the Lens of ESSA, it explains that kids

who have gone through trauma and show aggressive behaviors, prosocial behaviors,

cooperation, and self-control have improved by taking classes like theater. The study

found statistically significant positive effects of theater classes on measures of students’

cooperation, self-control, hyperactivity, and internalizing behavior, based on ratings

provided by teachers (Wan 34).

Gregory, D., Gregory, D., Gregory, D., Heller, R., Mackin, E., & Featuring Kappan. (2018,

August 26). Let's get rid of art education in schools. Retrieved December 2, 2019,

from http://www.kappanonline.org/gregory-lets-get-rid-art-education-schools/.

1. Though short this Writing expresses some interesting ideas about how the lack of art

classes should be handled. It says that art classes are just composed of scribbling when in

younger grades, and in the older ones it is a place to screw around, which is hard to

disagree with. It offers a solution: to make a creative core class. This class teaches the idea

of creativity with less opportunity to skew around or mindlessly scribble. It teaches how to

think outside of the box while creating things more useful like generating ideas, which can

be used in pretty much any profession.

2. The purpose Danny Gregory is trying to convey is that creative skills are so important and

though art classes are being cut, we still need that skill those classes are trying to teach. I

appreciate this point of view because it isn’t just saying to give more funds to art classes

because those obviously aren’t working out so why don’t we tweak what we had and

improve it. He is trying to tell the people who are pushing art that maybe art isn’t the

solution but something along those lines.

3. The source is a website for educators so the information is probably reviewed by

educators and edited by them to make sure there aren’t flaws. It is mostly an opinion based

essay so there is not much data to report or mess up.

4. This is a perfect paper to be used for the M in BEAM. It is a solution to the problem, but it

fixed some of the issues people are having with the current issue. It gives the solution
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while keeping the good aspects of an art class. It keeps the creativity people are looking

for while dropping the screwing around people can not stand.

5. So in my research, I found a good solution to this issue that people see in the classic art

class. Danny Gregory explains that art classes are sometimes viewed as a place to mess

around or scribble without any instruction or meaning involved, but with his solution kids

will be invested and well instructed. He suggests a creative core class. In doing this

students would learn the same creative process that they learned in art classes. From

theater to film production, This class would encourage kids to become in touch with their

creative abilities. Art is a part of creativity, but it is nowhere close to the whole span of

what is in store when creativity is utilized. This idea is well captured in the quote

“Creativity is about helping solve the world’s many problems” (Gregory).