Workman, Emily and States Education Commission of the.

Beyond the Core: Advancing Student

Success through the Arts. Education Trends. Education Commission of the States,

Education Commission of the States, 01 Sept. 2017. EBSCOhost,

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The arts enhance the development of what are known as deeper learning skills. These

deeper learning refers to the abilities and knowledge a student needs to thrive in higher

education. Honing these skills allows students to more easily master academic content, think

critically, collaborate more efficiently, communicate more effectively, learn how to learn, and

develop academic mindsets.

Emily Workman, the author of the report “Beyond the Core: Advancing Student Success

Through The Arts” conducted several studies regarding the effects of art education. For example,

an arts integration program

started providing lessons in the

arts in high poverty schools and

the results were very

unexpected. Students started

scoring higher on speaking and

listening sections of standardized testing and the attendance rates of students were significantly

higher on days with scheduled art lessons.

 Arts education fosters critical deeper learning skills, such as collaboration and

perseverance, in students.
  Despite [deeper learning] skills’ central roles in our education and, more broadly, our

lives, education policy has tended to overlook their importance

 Research indicates that deeper learning skills contribute significantly to a student’s

college, career and citizenship readiness.

This report provided me with a lot of valuable information about the effects of art

education on children. I was able to find multiple studies of student performance increasing due

to the arts. This source relates to other sources I have found because I will be able to relate

previously found data to the studies included in this report. Others with similar questions may

find this text to be useful because it touches up on many other relevant topics such as expanding

the arts in education.