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Huffington Post writes on Toronto's influential "
Learning Through the Arts" (LTTA) program, the arts integration program launched almost 20 years ago by The Royal Conservatory of Music. LTTA, which forges partnerships with schools across Canada, facilitates arts integration by bringing artist-educators into schools, training teachers, and creating arts inspired lesson plans underpinned by academic research.
"There are of course a lot of other reasons to admire [Toronto] which is the cultural, entertainment and financial capital of Canada, and home to more than 2.7 million people, but now another accolade can be added: It has one of the most comprehensive art integration efforts reinventing education in the world."
"The Royal Conservatory of Music based in Toronto, launched "Learning Through the Arts" (LTTA), almost 20 years ago, and they can claim the high ground when talking about preparing the workforce of the future."
"According to Donna Takacs, Managing Director of LTTA, "programs are being implemented across Canada, in (a few places) the US and in about a dozen other countries... LTTA is one of the most extensive differentiated instruction programs in the world."
"�arts integration works and the LTTA program proves it. All LTTA's programs are underpinned by academic research, which show that LATT students score considerably higher in math tests than non-LATT students. Literacy tests also improved, student engagement increased and dropout rates declined."
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