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[The Annenberg Foundation grants to arts education]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an snippet in the left side on the Annenberg Foundation, a foundation based in St. Davis, Pennsylvania, has announced their latest series of grants towards arts education. A $4.3 million challenge grant to six regional institutes to show how the arts can boost student academic achievements.
Date: May 22, 1996
Creator: Across The Nation
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

UNT takes program to Metroplex schools

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the University of North Texas and their education reform program developed by staff William McCarter and Jack Davis. The education reform program is an experiment on the children in their classrooms by teaching them different methods of arts education. McCarter states that research has shown that arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tapping into higher-level thinking skills and that art makes a measurable difference in test s… more
Date: April 22, 1997
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

UNT takes program to Metroplex schools

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the University of North Texas and their education reform program developed by staff William McCarter and Jack Davis. The education reform program is an experiment on the children in their classrooms by teaching them different methods of arts education. McCarter states that research has shown that arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tapping into higher-level thinking skills and that art makes a measurable difference in test s… more
Date: April 22, 1997
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Artist Emily Jennings teaching first-graders art]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on artist Emily Jennings teaching a class of first-graders art. The Abilene school district four years ago held an artist residency post with Jennings filling the position where she taught elementary school children art. Jennings role within the school district was boost the elementary school's emphasis on the arts and the success of the program allowed the district to keep Jennings on as an art educator.
Date: March 22, 1993
Creator: Wilson, Anthony
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

UNT professor offers expertise on Barnes collection

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter, Regents Professor at the University of North Texas, giving a lecture on art collector Albert C. Barnes. McCarter's lecture, "Dr. Albert C. Barnes: The Education of an Educator," will discuss Barnes as an art collector and artist as Barnes began collecting paintings. Purchasing works by Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir and Edouard Manet, which at the time the art establishment called junk. The lecture is in conjun… more
Date: May 22, 1994
Creator: Lennerts, Tim
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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