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City planning arts-themed middle school.
Byline: Tracy Jan
Dec. 14--Boston plans to open the city's first arts-themed middle school as soon as the fall of 2008, with a focus on the visual and performing arts.
The school, which school officials expect to have 240 sixth- to eighth-graders admitted by lottery, will incorporate the arts in every class in some way. Students will perform plays in English class, for example, or produce an animated movie to show their understanding of various principles in math, or study the life of a dancer to learn about biology and physiology in science. Each will take classes in voice, dance, instrumental music, and theater.
The school, city and school officials say, will be an attempt to share Boston's abundance of arts with youth and to give its lagging middle schools a boost. Wrapping the arts into academics and giving children the chance to perform can motivate students and keep them in school, the school's designers say.
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