Middle School – Music and Theater

10 year study

We periodically read reports and research about the benefits of arts education. We, as visual and/or performing arts educators don’t need a report to tell us what we already know. The impact of an excellent arts education with an effective arts educator guiding student learning is amazingly beneficial to learners, Pk-grade 12.

Just in case you’d like to read a report, here is a recent one. This was compiled while tracking the progress during a ten-year period of over 30,000 middle school students in Florida. Researchers from George Mason University looked at music and theatre.