In a show of their district-wide commitment to arts education, Towson's Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Dandalk's Patapsco High and Center for the Arts both received the prestigious title of "national schools of distinction in arts education" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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"Two Baltimore County high schools are among five nationwide to receive awards for arts education, school officials announced Thursday.
The Carver Center for Arts and Technology, in Towson, and Patapsco High and Center for the Arts, in Dundalk, were named "national schools of distinction in arts education" by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This is the first time multiple schools from one district have been honored the same year, said Darrell M. Ayers, the center's vice president of education.
'These schools have really created exciting and engaging learning environments,' Ayers said. 'They've wrought places where drama and literature, and math and music, and dance and visual arts and history can come together, so that the arts are part of what enlivens education and makes education better.'"
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