lConsequences of current reform efforts and emphasis on boosting test scores.
lNarrowed the curriculum and “blinkered” our vision of what we used to call “the whole child.”
l“To focus all our attention on measure academic performance is to blind us to these youngster’s need to live a satisfying life.”
lAim is not to simply focus on the narrowly cognitive, but to see how students respond emotionally, imaginatively, and
socially.
lThe arts make it possible in vivid ways to eliminate a distinction between cognition and emotion.