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Why Our Schools Need the Arts
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Jessica Hoffmann Davis
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Davis’ work is different and stimulating on several fronts. For the arts advocates, the very people who are receiving the NAEA News... the ones who get it... she offers a fresh approach to advocating for the arts. If we want to advocate for the arts, what might that entail? What are some Do’s and Don’ts? How might we, as advocates, prepare for the predictable challenges to arts as central theme in schools? Or, as Davis helps us remember, “If experiencing and coming to know one’s humanity through art is not as important an exercise as filling in the blanks on a multiple- choice tests, its time for us to review and revise our values and not compromise the teaching of art by asking it to be taught to the tests of other domains” (p. 47-48). By Professor Zach Kellehear NAEA News
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Ordinary Gifted Children: The Power and Promise of Individual Attention
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Jessica Hoffmann Davis
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About all children as gifted... "This is a very beautifully written and moving book. On one level it is the story of an amazing woman who ran a unique school for "ordinary gifted children," as she thought of them. It is on a deeper level a memoir of growing up on the top floor of the school, knowing your place in it was special...not always in good ways, because your mother was the principal, and a fiercely determined person and the champion of all the children who came under her care. This was no ordinary growing up. The book is replete with wonderful characters, from the little boy who sat on a chair outside the principal's office for two months until he was fionally ready to go to class, to the Italian relatives who brought so much life to the family, to the Jewish relatives whose story was often sadder, but no less vitally a part of Jessica's growing up. Jessica Davis is no ordinary gofted writer and memoirist. This book will stay with you for a long time after you - reluctantly - put it down."Review by Professor Jill Claster NYU
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