ARTS-BASED PUBLIC-SCHOOL CURRICULUM GAINS SUPPORT

In 1995, North Carolina’s Kenan Institute for the Arts created a program called A-Plus Schools, which infuses the arts into every aspect of the school day. Since the program’s inception, A-Plus schools have performed at least as well as the rest of North Carolina’s public schools on standardized tests. In the Washington Post, Martha Waggoner reports that school boards in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota have been encouraged by the program’s positive results and have recently decided to implement it themselves.