This Education Trends report explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state- and local-level policy considerations.
This report is part of a series — made possible with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation — that highlights promising policy trends across the priority areas identified in The Arts Leading the Way to Student Success: A 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education. See the other reports in this series: