The Iowa City Community School District elementary art curriculum needed to require only supplies students might have on hand at home, Quintero noted. She also wanted it to include cultural ...

Which brings me to my first reason why I believe art classes should be part of the elementary school curriculum. Art can improve skills such as math, reading, cognitive ability, verbal skills ...

The Student Success Act (SSA) is about to provide Salem Keizer Public "Well Rounded Education" dollars. This is a category of education improvement identified when the law was passed this year.

Elementary school artwork is no longer simply finger paint, stick figures, construction paper and glue. "We try to cross over into other parts of the curriculum," art teacher Joi Hosker said.