Arts Ed is Essential
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VIEW the "Arts Education is Essential" STATEMENT endorsed by hundreds of national and state organizations!
Afterschool Alliance
American Choral Directors
Association American Composers Forum
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Americans for the Arts
American String Teachers Association
Barbershop Harmony Society
Carnegie Hall
Casio America, Inc.
Chorus America
CMA Foundation
College Band Directors National Association
Conn-Selmer, Inc.
D’Addario Foundation
Eastman Music Company
Education Through Music
Educational Theatre Association
Give a Note Foundation
Hal Leonard
Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Band Directors’ Consortium
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz Education Network
KHS America
KORG, USA
League of American Orchestras
Little Kids Rock
Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation
Music for All
ARTS EDUCATION IS ESSENTIAL
Every school day needs arts education.
Arts education promotes academic achievement: A 2020 study of over 112,000 students showed that “highly engaged instrumental music students were, on average, academically over one year ahead of their peers.”
Arts education advances social and emotional development.
Arts education reduces disciplinary infractions: A recent study showed that arts education experiences reduce the proportion of students in school receiving disciplinary infractions by 3.6%.
Stay enrolled and graduate: Low-income students who are highly engaged in the arts are twice as likely to graduate college as their peers with no arts education.
More "Arts Education is Essential" STATEMENT endorsements:
Music Teachers National Association
NAMM Foundation
National Art Education Association
National Association for Music Education
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Coalition for Core Arts Standards
National Dance Education Organization
National Education Association
National Federation of State High School Associations
National YoungArts Foundation
Organization of American Kodály Educators
Quadrant Research
QuaverEd Recording Academy
Save The Music Foundation
State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education
The Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
United Sound, Inc.
Varsity Performing Arts
West Music Company
WURRL
Yedu
Yamaha Corporation of America
Young Audiences Arts for Learning
YOUnison
Do you represent a national organization interested in endorsing this statement? Email essential@nafme.org
MORE "Arts Education is Essential" endorsements
Alfred Music
American Alliance for Theatre & Education
American Bandmasters Association
American Dance Therapy Association
American Music Therapy Association
American School Band Directors
Association Arts Schools Network
ASCAP Foundation
BandLab for Education
Breezin’ Thru, Inc.
DeMoulin Bros. & Co.
Educational Tours, Inc.
El Sistema
Excelcia Music Publishing
GIA Publications
GRAMMY Music Education Coalition
Halftime Magazine Harmony Helper
Kappa Kappa Psi
KRUTZ, Inc.
Lesbian and Gay Band Association
Macie Publishing Company
MajoringinMusic.com
MakeMusic
Manhattan Concert Productions
MFR Holdings,
LLC Music and the Brain
Music Together
MusicFirst
National Association of School Music Dealers
National Dance Institute
National Dance Society
National Music Council
National Organization for Arts in Health
Nuvo Instrumental, LLC
Peripole, Inc.
Progressive Music
Retail Print Music Dealers Association
Schmitt Music
Soundtrap for Education
Strathmore
Sweet Adelines International Sweetwater Sound
Tau Beta Sigma
Teaching Artists Guild
Teaching for Artistic Behavior
Teaching With Orff
Ted Brown Music
The Midwest Clinic
The mPowered Music Educator Academy
The Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance
The National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians
The Society for Online Music Education
The Suzuki Association of the Americas
Theatre Communications Group TI:ME- Technology in Music Education
Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation
WGI Sport of the Arts
WorldStrides
Do you represent a national organization interested in endorsing this statement? Email essential@nafme.org