Quote: The program is significant, according to Terry L. Baker of the Education Development Center, Inc. /Center for Children and Technology. "It is difficult to overestimate the contribution that the A+ report makes to the fields of school reform and arts in education," Baker wrote in "Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development," a compendium of recent research on arts and education that was published by the national Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, D.C.

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