Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling

Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-238

  Fowler, Charles ^a  

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American society; Arts; Children; Curriculum; Learning; Parent; Policy maker; Schools; Subjects; Teaching

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EID: 84940477116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148336.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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