FACTS ABOUT ART EDUCATION
Young people who participate in the arts for a minimum of three hours across three days each week for at least one year are:
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4 times more likely to be recognised for academic achievement.
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4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.
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4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem.
Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:
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Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently.
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Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently.
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Read for pleasure nearly twice as often.
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Perform community service more than four times as often
*Living the Arts through Language + Learning: Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998
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'Do not confine your children to your own learning for
they were born in another time.'
- Hebrew Proverb
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