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Council Member Rita Joseph emphasizes the importance of arts education
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Council Member Rita Joseph highlights the crucial role of arts education in providing a well-rounded education for students. She emphasizes its benefits and importance, especially for marginalized communities.
- Arts education fosters creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Research shows arts participation enhances academic performance and social-emotional learning.
- For marginalized communities, arts education provides cultural affirmation and career pathways in creative industries.
Rita Joseph
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Arts education is a key component of a well rounded education that fosters creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
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Research has constantly shown that participation in arts enhances academic performance, improves social emotional learning, and increase student engagement.
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For students from historically marginalized communities, exposure to arts education provides an essential avenue for self instruction, cultural affirmation, and access to potential career pathways in creative industries.
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In a city as diverse as New York City, where over a 80 languages are spoken in our schools, the art serves as a universal language that connects and empowers our students.