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Awesome!! Located in an area of the country where students had not previously had access to an art museum, Crystal Bridges provided an unprecedented opportunity for a controlled study on the effects of a one-time visit to an art museum on K-12 students. The results were nothing short of game changing. As reported in a current article in the journal Education Next, researchers found that students who had taken part in a single museum field trip not only retained the information they received, they also showed significant increase in critical thinking skills, levels of tolerance and an increase in historical empathy -- the ability to understand and appreciate what life was like in different eras. These benefits were seen across the socio-economic spectrum, but the team found that those students from rural areas or disadvantaged schools, as well as minority students, showed a significantly greater positive impact huffingtonpost/don-bacigalupi/art-is-good-for-you-sprea_b_3942444.html
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:34:22 +0000

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