HARVARD STUDY LINKS MUSIC AND ARTS EDUCATION WITH
IMPROVED STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Fall 2000 brought the publication of Harvardıs Project Zero
"Reviewing
Education and the Arts Project" (REAP), a comprehensive look at
the arts and
academic achievement. The bottom line appears to be that while
most findings
remain correlative rather than causative, students engaged in the
arts do
strikingly better across the range of academic arenas than others.
Find out
more from the Executive Summary, available online at
http://pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/REAP.htm, or explore the full
report in The
Journal of Aesthetic Education (University of Illinois Press) volume
34,
numbers 34, Fall/Winter 2000.
