Overall, the impact of arts participation on
academic learning appears to be positive but low.
Not exact matches
«Game Plan for
Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new
academic competitions motivate students to achieve» will be available Wednesday, January 20 on educationnext.org and will
appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next, on newsstands by March 1.
Understanding why adventure
learning interventions
appear to improve
academic outcomes is not straightforward.
That more than 80 percent of those closures are for reasons other than
academic performance raises concerns — among charter advocates and opponents alike — that authorizers are not holding poorly performing charters accountable for student
learning; however, Consoletti argues that financial and operational problems often
appear before
academic data can be gathered.
A 2012 article titled «Physical Activity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body connection,» referenced a study on Australian elementary students that found «across age and sex,
academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education
appears to increase the rate of
learning and is positively related to
academic achievement.»
When scores for charter school students are compared directly with those of students who have similar demographic backgrounds and prior
academic performance, the charter school students
appeared to
learn more.