The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows

Editor’s @ore: Below is the Executive Summrrn of the Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP) Report: The Art.$ and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows. The authors wish to (it Anowledge Ralph Smith, of the Universiti~ of Illinois, for his excellent editoriirl guidunce. The full report is published t is u special issue of the Journal of Atwhetic Education 34, no. 3/4 (FalWiti p r 2000).