Final standards were relased in March 1994.
All students deserve access to the rich education and understanding that the arts provide.
The arts cultivate the whole child, building many kinds of literacy, providing many modes of communication, engaging students in problem-solving and collaboration, while providing rich and complex points of view on the world and on the human experience. Each of the arts is a discipline in itself, a vast body of subject matter - an array of skills, knowledge, and techniques. Beyond their significance as distinct disciplines, the arts are also important in helping students to make connections and process learning. Students should be able to communicate at a basic level in the four arts disciplines - dance, music, theater, and the visual arts, including knowledge and skills in the use of the basic vocabularies, materials, tools, techniques, and intellectual methods of each arts discipline. be able to communicate proficiently in at least one art form, including the ability to define and solve artistic problems with insight, reason, and technical proficiency. be able to develop and present basic analyses of works of art from structural, historical, and cultural perspectives, and from combinations of those perspectives. Content standards specify what students should know and be able to do in the arts disciplines.