Will voluntary national standards fix the potholes of arts education?(The Integration of the Arts Into the Curriculum, part 1: The United States)

The current focus on voluntary national standards has catapulted arts education into a new prominence in U.S. education.(1) Six influences encouraging this prominence come immediately to mind. First, advocates for the arts have promised that an unbelievable array of benefits stem from participation in the arts. Second, school reformers have found it politically acceptable to include the arts in the curriculum, and they promise to infuse the arts into the wondrous educational collage that is to replace individual subjects. Third, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts all but ...