U.S. Department of Education
The “Your U.S. Department of Education Bookshelf” provides resources to the public on a variety of education topics. Their K-12 presentation, for example, offers findings from a longitudinal study which shows:
- Students who had arts-rich experiences in high school showed higher overall GPAs than students who lacked these experiences.
- Arts-engaged high school students enrolled in competitive colleges—and in four-year colleges in general—at higher rates than students with low arts engagement.
- Low-income students with arts-rich experiences in high school were more than three times as likely to earn a bachelor’s degree as low-income students without arts-rich experiences in school.
Download the presentation and check out many of the others on topics ranging from early learning to standards and assessments.
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