Because schools play a pivotal role in cultivating the next generation of citizens and leaders, it is imperative that we reflect on the fundamental purpose of a well-rounded education.
This highlights not just the fact that this matters to the individual students but how ultimately this impacts us all.
Moreover, the most promising outcomes associated with arts education learning objectives extend beyond commonly reported outcomes such as math and reading test scores. There are strong reasons to suspect that engagement in arts education can improve school climate, empower students with a sense of purpose and ownership, and enhance mutual respect for their teachers and peers. Yet, as educators and policymakers have come to recognize the importance of expanding the measures we use to assess educational effectiveness, data measuring social and emotional benefits are not widely collected. Future efforts should continue to expand on the types of measures used to assess educational program and policy effectiveness.
This really drives home where the gaps lie currently and how we can move forward with making progress. We needs means of reporting and measurement on a larger scale to help speak to why the arts are so important. Having only select studies and focus groups leaves limitations to how seriously those in power take the concern.
We find that a substantial increase in arts educational experiences has remarkable impacts on students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Relative to students assigned to the control group, treatment school students experienced a 3.6 percentage point reduction in disciplinary infractions, an improvement of 13 percent of a standard deviation in standardized writing scores, and an increase of 8 percent of a standard deviation in their compassion for others. In terms of our measure of compassion for others, students who received more arts education experiences are more interested in how other people feel and more likely to want to help people who are treated badly.
This is the bulk of the article that really makes the entire argument. It gives factual data to speak to the positive impacts of the arts education.
Although vaccine shots induce antibodies in the blood, they don’t induce many in the mucous membranes, meaning they’re unlikely to prevent the virus from entering the body. But they could still protect tissues deeper in the body such as the lungs, thus keeping an infection from getting worse. “The primary benefit of vaccination will be to prevent severe disease,
It is super important that people understand how and why this is an effective strategy - vaccination.
A vaccine could still mitigate severe cases; it could make COVID-19 easier to live with. The virus is likely here to stay, but eventually, the pandemic will end.
While glum this is the reality we are living in. The winter months hit us hard, and it is easy to feel like we are doing better now - but it also may be a matter of time before we are facing another wave. or there is need for more bosters.
sh. But the emphasis on speed—as in “Operation Warp Speed”—has also created real worries about vaccines being rushed to market.
This was something that again and again was a talking point for many vaccine hsitant despite data and background shared by prominent medical communities like John Hopkins
vaccine, when it is available, will mark only the beginning of a long, slow ramp down. And how long that ramp down takes will depend on the efficacy of a vaccine, the success in delivering hundreds of millions of doses, and the willingness of people to get it at all.
this really captures in hindsight the largest challenges we did indeed fac. Look at the effectiveness of Johnson and Johnsons vaccine - the efficacy / Look at how many people were at least originally unwilling to take the vaccine - though more and more did come around as they saw their peers were not a member of a zombie apocolypse as a result of being vaccinated or simply because they wanted to travel etc. The distribution of vaccine also had its hiccups and challenges. This writer all but looked into the future. However, when you think about if history wad to repeat itself with a new outbreak of some kind - and a new vaccine were to be developed - I would be interested to know would we run into these same exact concerns? would we have learned from this experience and avoided some of the mishaps?
Normal life is on the other side, and we just have to wait—until we have a vaccine.
This is what we as a society were told again and again and it captures the main premise of th article - once we have a vaccine- here are all things to be considered.
I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.
we can relate stone as hard and cold and lifeless. The anaology and description again relates the condition of the man to something tangible we know.
And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously — oh, so cautiously — cautiously (for the hinges creaked) — I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.
He marks the level of caution, but using the word more than once making it more intense a feeling by doing so. Also the hinge creaking as going slowly we can relate to like when someone slowly opens a rusty something.
If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing, or you can look three people down, and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.
There is community in movie attendance. People cheer at the end of movies despite the actors inability to hear them. It is the communal experience of those that promotes a response such as this. With community feeling like something we have missed during the pandemic moments of celebration no matter how small matter.
Maybe, under new ownership, cinemas would notice people like being able to order an adult drink, and a snack that doesn't taste like Styrofoam, and that they're willing to splash out for that.
This speaks to what is more a modern experience for movie goers. Cushy seats, and having a meal and drink sell better. When you are talking costly concessions, why not eat something substantial or have a beverage of choice that is not limited to soda.
It seems likely -- and some surveys confirm -- that even after lockdown measures wane, people will favor streaming movies at home over the risks associated with going out.
This is the question, now that the pandemic is seen by many as improving, or being resolved, will people want to continue to stay home?
Since the clarity and effectiveness of your transitions will depend greatly on how well you have organized your paper, you may want to evaluate your paper’s organization before you work on transitions.
I think this is a really great call out. Organization of your thoughts matter. Your content will feel jumbled. You want to read it the way you would want someone to tell it to you. If something is not organized in the right order of thought, it can make following overall ideas and premises difficult, and you could read your reader.
Your readers (instructors, friends, or classmates) tell you that they had trouble following your organization or train of thought
I think it is easy for idea to get scrambled and this speaks to the importance of revision. Often if your thoughts are not flowing together or making sense to others, this is due to you yourself not going back and taking a moment to see if it all comes together as you had originally anticipated or had hoped for.
If you have done a good job of arranging paragraphs so that the content of one leads logically to the next, the transition will highlight a relationship that already exists by summarizing the previous paragraph and suggesting something of the content of the paragraph that follows.
It can be really awkward if you do not tie the ideas of one sentence together to another, let alone moving ideas together paragraph to paragraph. We need to understand why these things speak to one another.
If the debate veers into other topics, acknowledge it and reset.
It is really easy to end up down additional paths of discussion, and while this could be helpful in resolving other issues, it is important to remain focused on a singular task at a time for efficiency. We can circle back to the rest as applicable or needed.
disagreements can be uncomfortable, they are more likely to lead partners or a team to make progress, innovate, and come up with breakthrough solutions than consensus and “nice” conversations in which people hold back what they think.
People often agree simply to get along. To disagree, and more so publicly so, can cause discomfort for some.
Jessica Heppen and colleagues at the American Institutes for Research and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
The author choses to cite specific people, institutions such as University to attempt to strengthen her argument and position.
Online courses are generally not as effective as in-person classes,
Note the use of the word generally. Anytime a word liked generally, typically, usually are used, it is because this means it is not necessarily true in all situations.
This essay is the fifth in a series that aims to put the pieces of research together so that education decisionmakers can evaluate which policies and practices to implement.The conveners of this project—Susanna Loeb, the director of Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and Harvard education professor Heather Hill—have received grant support from the Annenberg Institute for this series.
This section calls out the "why" behind the opinion piece and helps the reader to understand the potential motivation behind the writing. The author shares as a part of a series of essays. The author is also the recipient of grant money.
June Ahn of New York University and Andrew McEachin of the RAND Corp.
This is another attempt to convey credibility as the author is citing a university with name recognition. Typically, a reader is looking for what appears to be an expertise on the subject matter. By citing NYU a person who does not further research, may be more inclined to accept the narrative being shared.