The Importance Of Arts Education

“An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently,” Gavin Newsom says. The arts have been a big part of our history; they help shape our society. Many students who love art, music, and theater are well aware that the art education in public schools might not be part of the school’s curriculum, due to the cutting of the budget. As a result, debates arise on what curriculum should disappear and what should stay. One of the choices is the art education because many believe that art education isn’t important, and the schools should focus more on classes that are important to students like mathematics, science, and

In our culture, we measure students’ intelligence by looking at his/her test scores and grades. With arts education, students have a better chance to achieve high test score and better grades. According to the article “Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement,” Sandra Ruppert states that based on the federal database of middle and high school students, students who are highly involved in any art related classes will perform better in school and get a better test score on standardized achievement tests than students who are not involved in any art related classes. The more involve the student is in the arts, the better the chance the student will have a higher test score and better grades. With the help of art education, students perform better in school and get higher test scores. In the book Why Our Schools Need the Arts, Jessica Hoffmann Davis states, “An urban school in the South Bronx decided to have The Bronx Dance Theater’s education director come in to teach ballet twice a week to a 4th-grade class that had the lowest reading scores in the city. After a year of ballet lessons, the children’s reading scores went up” (45). As shown in the book, Arts education has a positive impact in the development of students’ skills. Many students think that the core subjects are difficult, but if students have arts education, the student will do well because the arts education helps develop his/her academic skills. Most of us wants to succeed in all our classes, which makes us focus on things that we think are important, like the core subjects and some think that arts education wastes our time, but it actually benefits us because it enhances our skills and improve our learning techniques, so that we can perform better in academics and get higher test