The Obama administration  announced a new initiative  last week to improve a handful of the nation’s worst performing schools through arts education. The Turnaround Arts Initiative  has chosen eight schools to receive $14.7 million over three years to integrate art, music, dance and theater into their curricula. The experimental program from the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities, in ...

Children with asthma are frequent visitors to hospitals and can become severely ill and even die from complications of the disease.