Funding the arts in schools should be a no-brainer. Dozens of studies have established links between the arts and improved outcomes for students. Activities like painting and drama give young people emotional outlets that they may find nowhere else. And arts courses are often the only incentive for troubled students to come to school.
These are the traditional justifications for funding arts education – all valid, yet somehow incapable of persuading policymakers to stop year after year of cuts to school art programs. But there is another reason to support arts education that may move them.
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