Why Our High Schools Need the Arts

by Jessica Hoffmann Davis

In this follow-up to her bestselling book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts, Jessica Hoffmann Davis addresses the alarming dropout rate in our high schools and presents a thoughtful, evidence-based argument that increasing arts education in the high school curriculum will keep kids in school. Davis shares compelling voices of teachers and their adolescent learners to demonstrate how courses in the arts are relevant and valuable to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080775286X
• ISBN13: 9780807752869
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.8"