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NEW YORK, Jul 27, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A study commissioned by New York's Guggenheim Museum has found that incorporating art into education can increase literacy.
The study, now in its second year, has found that students who were visited by an artist from the museum showed improvement in literary skills, The New York Times reported.
The study is being conducted by Randi Korn & Associates, who were hired for the three-year-long study on a $640,000 grant from the Department of Education.
In part because of the federal No Child Left Behind initiative, many schools' art programs have been limited or removed altogether to refocus funds. The study is focusing on the theory that through interpreting and talking about art, children will learn to do the same with other subjects.
Researchers did report that the presence of art in students' scholastic lives did not improve their standardized English language arts test scores.
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