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Beyond Arithmetic

By The Daily Dish

Nov 7 2009, 11:17 AM ET

Jonah Lehrer reviews some research showing the cognitive benefits of arts education:

The current obsession with measuring learning certainly has some benefits (accountability is good), but it also comes with some serious drawbacks, since it diminishes all the forms of learning, like arts education, that can't be translated into a score on a multiple choice exam.



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