Author: Hetland, Lois; Winner, Ellen; Hope, Samuel; Smith, Ralph A.; Urice, John K.; Chapman, Laura H.; Aprill, Arnold; Hagood, Thomas K.; Gee, Constance Baumgartner

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Abstract:

This collection of essays is about Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP), the first comprehensive and quantitative study that presents the realities of research on academic outcomes of arts education. REAP conducted a comprehensive search for all studies from 1950 to 1999 which tested the claim that studying the arts leads to some form of academic improvement.

CONTENTS
The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows.
REAP: More Than Fifteen Minutes?
The Harvard REAP Study: Inherent "versus" Instrumental Values.
Implications of the REAP Report on Advocacy.
Can the Arts Win Hearts and Minds?
Toward a Finer Description of the Connection Between Arts Education and Student Achievement.
Dance to Read or Dance to Dance?
The Perils and Parables of Research on Research.

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Categories: Arts Education