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ERIC Number: EJ349138
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Performing Arts High Schools: A Burgeoning Movement.
Curtis, Thomas E.
NASSP Bulletin, v71 n496 p126-28 Feb 1987
Discusses performing arts high schools that train students in general education and music, visual arts, theater, and dance. Enumerates purposes, advantages (mainly, a challenging and motivating atmosphere with opportunities to concentrate in one area), and problems (funding, understaffing, academic standards, and admission criteria). Advises administrators about issues needing resolution. (MLH)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Expectation, Financial Needs, High Schools, Magnet Schools, Nontraditional Education, Secondary Education, Talent, Theater Arts
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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