PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CALL TO ARTS
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© Carlos Barria/Reuters
A head for the arts: Obama’s own experience as a child, when even the poorest schools had an art teacher and a music teacher, is driving his desire to reintroduce that experience for all children.
President Obama’s call to arts
Proposed Artists Corps is one plank in his push to revitalize the arts in education.
By Gloria Goodale | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 16, 2009 edition
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