When school programs come on the chopping block, one of the first questions that educators
must often answer is how necessary their program is. In my own undergraduate training, we
had a unit on how to advocate and defend our programs against budget cuts or against being
eliminated altogether. Unfortunately, arts programs are often the first to fall under scrutiny
when budgets run tight. In continuing with the study of public and professional perception, I
wanted to know how respondents felt about how STEM education and arts education prepared
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In comparing the perceptions of arts education and STEM education as being necessary college
preparatory courses, STEM courses rated higher overall among respondents as being necessary
to the college bound student (
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