Music Advocacy Facts

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According to a study of all respondents in TETAC (Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge) schools, students in these schools utilizing the Comprehensive Arts Education (CAE) approach can to a "moderate or great extent"...
• Develop and evaluate alternative solutions to problems (over 70% of respondents)
• Work cooperatively with others (over 85%)
• Understand how the information and skills learned in school relate to the "real world" (over 80%)
• Have increased motivation to learn and engage in instructional activities (over 80%)
• Make connections across different subject or content areas (over 85%)
• Express themselves through writing more effectively than students not taught through CAE/DBAE (almost 80%)

From: Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge (TETAC), Fall 1996 through Summer 1998

Available here: The Arts Education Partnership

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