Arts Involvement Narrows Student Achievement Gap:
A new NEA study finds disadvantaged students do better academically if they are intensely involved in the arts.
Students from the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder tend to do
less well in school than those from more upscale families. But newly published research identifies one sub-group of these youngsters who tend to exceed expectations: those who participate heavily in the arts.
“At-risk teenagers or young adults with a history of intensive arts experiences show achievement levels closer to, and in some cases exceeding, the levels shown by the general population studied,” a team of scholars writes in a new
National Endowment for the Arts Research Report. “These findings suggest that in-school or extracurricular programs offering deep arts involvement may help to narrow the gap in achievement levels among youth.”
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