Project SMARTArt: a case study in elementary school media literacy and arts education.

Project SMARTArt represents a significant breakthrough for implementing media literacy programs within schools. A federal demonstration grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts led the Center for Media Literacy, the Music Center Education Division of Los Angeles County, AnimAction, Inc., and the Los Angeles Unified School District's Leo Politi elementary school to a new understanding of media literacy and to a new guiding principle for implementation programs.

The principle is that media literacy and the arts should ...

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