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Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP) Executive Summary

SUMMARY

The executive summary of research conducted to link academic success and art education: REAP has published a series of meta-analytic articles reviewing the state of the evidence for transfer of arts learning to non-arts cognitive achievement. In addition, REAP’s work has been widely discussed in Beyond the Soundbite: Arts Education and Academic Outcomes (Winner & Hetland, 2001), in a dedicated issue of the Arts Education Policy Review, in commentary on National Public Radio, and in articles and letters in The New York Times, Education Week, and numerous other newspapers and magazines.