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Arts Education Support - America |
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The US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (honorary chair, Michelle Obama), released a report on arts education in America's schools 'Reinvesting in Arts Education'. An article on the importance of arts and culture being central to the curriculum, and young people’s learning, in response to this report was written on TES.
Below is an extract on TES in response to the report, for the full response please click here
'... But Reinvesting in Arts Education doesn’t merely reinforce familiar arguments about breadth, enrichment, culture and creativity. It also presents persuasive evidence on the relationship between high quality arts teaching and pupil engagement, especially among disadvantaged and disaffected pupils, and on the potential of good arts education to narrow the attainment gap, which in Britain and the US remains wider than in most other rich countries. The report cites studies showing correlations between high levels of participation in good arts education and improved test scores in literacy and numeracy; research on the transfer of arts skills to aspects of reading and mathematics; and evidence from brain research on the relationship between exposure to the arts and children’s attentiveness, cognitive development and long-term memory'.
Please click here to download the full 'Reinvesting in Arts Education' report off the White House Website.
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