Editorial Salutes Wallace Grantee Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit

A Detroit Free Press editorial throws a spotlight on research showing that 97 percent of surveyed teenagers who participated in the youth ensemble of the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, a Wallace Foundation grantee, planned to graduate from high school and college. The commentary, headlined “Curtain Up on Brighter Students,” lauds this “near perfect” rate and calls the findings of the study, which was also supported by Wallace, “a ringing endorsement for the value of the arts in K-12 education.” The study, conducted by two professors at the University of Michigan’s School of Social work, is called “Excellence on Stage and in Life: the Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts.”

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To download a summary of the research conducted by the University of Michigan, click here: http://www.mosaicdetroit.org/mosaic-model.pdf