Make a case for your creative project by using this new research complied by the Cultural Learning Alliance.

This research publication has been funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and is a contribution by the Cultural Learning Alliance to the current debate about the transformative role played by the arts and heritage in the lives of children and young people.

It was developed through national consultation with the CLA’s members which revealed that they wanted evidence to make the case for cultural learning.

Using only evidence from cohort studies with large sample sizes (typically 12,000) and research with control groups the Cultural Learning Alliance emphatically say there are instrumental outcomes which cultural learning delivers.

They have grouped these into five key research findings:

1.Learning through arts and culture improves attainment in all subjects

> Taking part in drama and library activities improves attainment in literacy

> Taking part in structured music activities improves attainment in maths, early language acquisition and early literacy

>Schools that integrate arts across the curriculum in America have shown consistently higher average reading and mathematics scores compared to similar schools that do not

2.Participation in structured arts activities increases cognitive abilities

3.Students from low income families who take part in arts activities at school are three times more likely to get a degree

4.Employability of students who study arts subjects is higher and they are more likely to stay in employment

5.Students who engage in the arts at school are twice as likely to volunteer and are 20% more likely to vote as young adults

Full details: www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/page.aspx?p=93