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Arts integrated classrooms boast more self-regulatory behaviors (i.e., paying attention, persevering, problem-solving, self-initiating, asking questions, taking risks, cooperating, using feedback, and being prepared) than the traditional classroom setting. In addition, at-risk students significantly improve their reading scores in arts-integrated classrooms vs. the traditional classroom setting.

From: "Using Art Processes to Enhance Academic Self-Regulation," Susan M. Baum and Steven V. Owen, Paper Presented at ArtsConnection National Symposium on Learning and the Arts: New Strategies for Promoting Student Success, New York, February 22, 1997

Available here: The Arts Education Partnership - Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development

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