Few of those who happily take the home mortgage deduction on their income taxes think of themselves as
participating in a program of publicly subsidized housing, but they are.
By participating in this program artists take advantage of networking and community building opportunities in addition to having access to low - cost studio space.
In one case, students improved academically
after participating in a program which encouraged them to reflect on ways in which daily classroom activities connected to lifelong goals.
Doing so does not require forcing all other organizations to adopt that same mission in order to
participate in programs designed to help them grow and serve more students.
The most important comparison to make is between the treatment group schools eligible for the bonus program (most of which
actually participated in the program) and the schools in the control group.
Teachers who
participated in this program reported that it made a difference in their selection of teaching strategies and that students seemed to learn better when they used these revised strategies.