See Below for the Link to the Denver Business Journal STEAM story. Dean Kantor’s quote kicks off the story and adds some great context.
How STEAM plays a critical role in developing Colorado’s STEM-focused workforce
“The broad way of using arts to learn gets narrowed into oral and written language,” said Rebecca Kantor, dean of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development and a long-time researcher into the effects arts have on child development. “The arts become specials … and they’ve been diminished more and more because schools are feeling more pressure to spend time in STEM stuff.”