Drama in the Curriculum for Troubled Young People - Is It Worth the Fight?
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FIGHTING FOR TIME in the school curriculum for arts instruction is a difficult battle. Indeed, a certain portion of art educators' time will regularly be devoted to strapping on our armor and doing battle with those very familiar and persistent dragons-Lack of Time, Lack of Money, Lack of Trained Teachers, and in truly benighted regions of the realm, the dragon named Back to Basics. When it comes to justifying time in the curriculum to provide arts instruction for troubled young people, the same dragons rear their heads, but they do so in a slightly different landscape and take on a different appearance. And they bring some of their cousins.
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