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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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Fact: Arts
Arts-engaged, low-income students are more likely than their non-arts-engaged peers to have attended and done well in college, build careers, volunteered in their communities and participated in the political process by voting. The conclusion of these recent studies is that on average, arts-engaged low-income students tend to perform more like higher-income students in the many types of comparisons that the studies tracks.
—Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities, May 2011