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17% versus 5%: Students with access to the arts in high school are three times more likely than students who lack those experiences to earn a bachelor's degree.
—National Endowment for the Arts, March 2012
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“This is a time and place in which young Americans are raised to believe that they can and will and must be superstars. They're actually counting on that million-dollar contract.”
—“American Idol is a Mind Game,” by Anneli Rufus in Psychology Today