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Title: Instructional Relationships and Predictors for Eighth Grade Student Academic Achievement as Measured by the North Carolina End of Grade Comprehensive Reading Scores to the Number of the Visual Arts Classes Completed During Middle Score
Author: Newnam, Michelle
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Art--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of the researcher was to test for any significant relationships existing among the physical number of visual arts courses completed by 8th grade students during the middle school years to the actual academic performance as measured by ...

Title: Performing Arts Education and the Academic Identity Development of African American Male High School Students
Author: Walton, Calvin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning, Art--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: AbstractThis study examined the effects of performing arts participation on the academic achievement of African American male high school students. The study investigated how engagement in school-based performing arts influenced the academic ident...

Title: ‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Author: Oliver, Brigitte
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, History
Description: In 1941 and 1944, two women arrived as art students at the progressive and experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. There, under the college’s mission, experienced a progressive education model influenced by John Dewey. As they moved...