Music Advocacy Facts

In an 11-year study (1987-1998) on the effects of involvement in youth organizations (either arts organizations, athletics organizations that also had a strong academic bent, or community service organizations), compared to the National Educational Longitudinal Sample (NELS) control group, students involved in arts-based groups were:
• over four times more likely to participate in community service
• eight times more likely to win a community service award
• nearly twice as likely to read for pleasure
• over three times more likely to be elected to a class office in school
• three times more likely to win a school attendance award
• four times more likely to participate in a math or science fair
• over four times more likely to win an award for an essay or poem
• two times more likely to win an academic achievement award
• four times more likely to win schoolwide attention for academic achievement