Authority: Does Art Play A Role In Academic Achievement?

This article was funded by the Bauman Foundation, Ellen Winner, Principal Investigator, Boston College and Harvard Graduate School of Education Lois Hetland, Project Manager, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
 REAP Research Team
Ellen Winner, Principal Investigator; Lois Hetland, Project Manager; Ron Butzlaff, Statistics Consultant; Mia Keinanen, Dance Specialist; Ann Podlozny, Drama Specialist; Kathryn Vaughn, Music Specialist; Kristin Burger; Monica Cooper; and, Erik Moga
Research Assistants
Lisa French, Kimberlee Garris, Nandita Ghosh, Jessica Gordon, Joanna Holtzman, Jenny Martin, Elisabeth Moriarty-Ambrozaitis, Brian Moss, Melissa Mueller, Leah Okimoto, Nina Salzman, and Daniel Schneider served as research assistants during various periods of this project.
Project Advisors
Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Richard Light, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government David N. Perkins, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Robert Rosenthal, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Harvard University, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside ; Judith D. Singer, Academic Dean and Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Funder
The Bauman Foundation supported the research reported here. We thank John Landrum Bryant, co-director of the Bauman Foundation, for his vision and generous support The double issue of The Journal of Aesthetic Education, entitled Special Issue: The Arts and Academic Improvement: What the Evidence Shows (Vol. 34, No. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2000) can be ordered from the University of Illinois Press. The Journal of Aesthetic Education is item number JAE-1055. To order from the University of Illinois Press contact: Journals Division, University of Illinois Press, 1325 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820 or go to the website: pzweb.harvard.edu

The Arts and Academic Improvement: What the Evidence Shows

There were many people who researched the information for this article. Many of these people are professors or graduates from Harvard. Given this fact, I do believe that many, if not all, of these people have the authority to write this article.