By Divya Jindal-Snape, Dan Davies, Rosalind Scott, Anna Robb, Chris Murray, Chris Harkins

This paper reports on a systematic literature review to examine the association between children and young people’s participation in arts activities and their academic achievement.

Overall, there appears to be some justification from the literature for public investment in high-quality, long-term arts education programmes for children and young people in schools and community settings, on the basis of its potential to enhance academic achievement. However, there may be more intrinsic benefits to arts participation than the instrumental, essentially economic justification of improved academic standards.

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