Students from several low-performing schools participated in a talent show, presumably the first of its kind, at the White House on May 19, CBS News reports.
CBS quoted Ms Obama as saying that the Arts and Humanities program had helped students at these schools become “engaged in their education like never before.”
The program yielded some interesting results about standardized test scores, but the sample size was too small for us to draw any conclusions. The results were still encouraging enough to cause supporters to quadruple the program for next year, including schools in Illinois, Minnesota, and California, whereas the original eight schools in this first year were in Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, DC.