Music Education Improves Literacy of Second-Graders
As arts and music programs get squeezed out of America's cash-strapped schools, evidence continues to accumulate of the wide-reaching positive effects of such training.
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Calming the Storm That Spawns School Shooters
In his new book, professor Jonathan Fast describes the similar cultural factors that create the rampage killer.
Art Therapy Improves Lives of Breast Cancer Survivors
The arts have taken a beating this week, with various members of Congress — including the father of…
Hardest Problems Can Make the Best Teachers
For those challenges that are difficult to describe, tackling the hardest example first may be the best way to master a concept.
What Are American Schools Doing Right?
Amid the hand-wringing over the parlous state of U.S. education, experts suggest that successes demonstrate that lasting reform will require constellations of effort, not just stars.
The Eight of 2008
The best of Miller-McCune magazine's first year of publication, as chosen by Editor-in-Chief John Mecklin.
If YOU Can Draw, Then YOU Should Be in School!
The case for making American universities into patrons of the arts.
A Poverty Antidote Goes Global
Bill Strickland hopes to persuade 200 cities around the world to replicate his arts, education and job-training program.
The New College Try
Gritty Hammond, Ind., and 80 other cities in decline have a novel approach to economic development: They're attracting new residents by offering to pay for their children to attend college. But is a promise to pay tuition a growth strategy — or welfare for the middle class?
American Kids Left Behind in Numbers Game
Social stigmas against math force youths to hide or neglect skills.