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After the NCLB act was passed, many people thought that it had a negative effect on the arts education in schools because it urged teachers to focus their student's education on subjects that require a standardized test.
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In his article, Rod Paige attempts to convince thousands of public school superintendents that the arts in schools play a crucial role in the students' education. He discuses how the NCLBA doesn't have to take a toll on arts education and states how it can be used to influence school art programs.
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David E Gullatt's article includes studies that prove how arts education influences students' understanding of important subjects that require standardized tests. These studies begin to influence the idea that arts education is an important role in students' education.
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In this article, the authors conduct studies proving that students who are engaged in art pathways provided by their school have larger intellectual skills and success rates than students without art pathways in their school.
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In this article, MacDonald includes recent studies that explain how music education influences students' well-being.
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This act was passed to replace the NCLBA in attempt to prohibit the Department of Education from imposing certain requirements on states or school districts' standardized testing scores and curriculum. The ESSA also made sure to include school art programs as well-rounded forms of education, and it entitled arts and music education to be eligible for support under “expanded learning time” provisions.