In 2010, CAPE, in partnership with Chicago Public Schools, concluded the Partnerships for Arts Integration Research (PAIR) project. PAIR was a 4-year program that brought professional teaching artists together with 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom teachers for in-class projects and ongoing professional development, while lead researchers Dr. Gail Burnaford and Dr. Lawrence Scripp worked to understand the impact of arts integration on students and teachers alike.
The schools with the arts programs were compared with six comparable control schools that did not have arts integrated instruction nor CAPE professional development. The program gathered multiple sources of research data to look at the positive growth of students and school engaged in arts integrated instruction.
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