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Louise Slaughter: “And we find that once that right brain is developed it spills over on to the left-hand side, and, as I pointed out…”

On the recordMarch 12, 1997
And we find that once that right brain is developed it spills over on to the left-hand side, and, as I pointed out earlier, that just 4 years of art, the verbal scores on SAT's will go up 65 points, and math, 45, and I know of no other thing we can do for these students to get that kind of result.
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Louise Slaughter
New York

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Discussing the impact of art education on student performance during a speech.

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