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UNT to work with area schools in national arts experiment Six Metroplex elementary schools NTIEVA will coordinate the project with plus 30 other schools nationwide were the selected schools in Fort Worth, Hurst- selected to participate as Arts Partner Euless-Bedford and Plano. Schools in a $15 million experiment to UNT will have a luncheon April 23 reform education. The six schools, which for principals and art specialists at the six will work with art educators at UNT, were newly announced Arts Partner schools. announced in March by the Annenberg -Nancy Cochran LeMay Foundation, the Getty Education Institute - for the Arts and the National Arts Education Consortium. - The schools are Mitchell Elementary in Plano; Shady Brook Elementary in Hurst-Euless-Bedford; and Oakhurst, Greenbriar, North Hi Mount and E.M. Daggett elementary schools in Fort Worth. Each will receive services worth approxi- mately $25,000 to $35,000 annually for five years to serve as demonstration sites for implementing a comprehensive approach to arts education linked to whole-school reform strategies for student achievement. The five-year grant will provide pro- fessional development, implementation of arts curricula and school reform strategies, and measurement of student achievement in the Arts Partner Schools. Art educators from the School of Visual Arts will work with the six schools in the coming months to prepare them to implement the compre- hensive arts curriculum in the 1997-98 school year. "Research has shown that the arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tap- Third-graders explore "A Dash for the ping into higher-level thinking skills," Timber" by Frederic Remington. UNT art says R. William McCarter, Regents educators have received a five-year grant Professor of art and co-director of the to help area elementary schools inple- North Texas Institute for Educators on the . a . Visual Arts. ment a comprehensive arts currculum. Nancy Walkup and Pam Stephens of (Photo by Nancy Walkup)
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