Arts Ed is Essential

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VIEW the "Arts Education is Essential" STATEMENT endorsed by hundreds of national and state organizations!

  • Afterschool Alliance

  • American Choral Directors

  • Association American Composers Forum

  • American Orff-Schulwerk Association

  • Americans for the Arts

  • American String Teachers Association

  • Barbershop Harmony Society

  • Carnegie Hall

  • Casio America, Inc.

  • Chorus America

  • CMA Foundation

  • College Band Directors National Association

  • Conn-Selmer, Inc.

  • D’Addario Foundation

  • Eastman Music Company

  • Education Through Music

  • Educational Theatre Association

  • Give a Note Foundation

  • Hal Leonard

  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Band Directors’ Consortium

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center

  • Jazz Education Network

  • KHS America

  • KORG, USA

  • League of American Orchestras

  • Little Kids Rock

  • Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation

  • Music for All



ARTS EDUCATION IS ESSENTIAL

Every school day needs arts education.

  • Arts education promotes academic achievement: A 2020 study of over 112,000 students showed that “highly engaged instrumental music students were, on average, academically over one year ahead of their peers.”

  • Arts education advances social and emotional development.

  • Arts education reduces disciplinary infractions: A recent study showed that arts education experiences reduce the proportion of students in school receiving disciplinary infractions by 3.6%.

  • Stay enrolled and graduate: Low-income students who are highly engaged in the arts are twice as likely to graduate college as their peers with no arts education.

More "Arts Education is Essential" STATEMENT endorsements:

  • Music Teachers National Association

  • NAMM Foundation

  • National Art Education Association

  • National Association for Music Education

  • National Association of Elementary School Principals

  • National Association of Secondary School Principals

  • National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

  • National Dance Education Organization

  • National Education Association

  • National Federation of State High School Associations

  • National YoungArts Foundation

  • Organization of American Kodály Educators

  • Quadrant Research

  • QuaverEd Recording Academy

  • Save The Music Foundation

  • State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education

  • The Rock and Roll Forever Foundation

  • United Sound, Inc.

  • Varsity Performing Arts

  • West Music Company

  • WURRL

  • Yedu

  • Yamaha Corporation of America

  • Young Audiences Arts for Learning

  • YOUnison

Do you represent a national organization interested in endorsing this statement? Email essential@nafme.org


  • Alfred Music

  • American Alliance for Theatre & Education

  • American Bandmasters Association

  • American Dance Therapy Association

  • American Music Therapy Association

  • American School Band Directors

  • Association Arts Schools Network

  • ASCAP Foundation

  • BandLab for Education

  • Breezin’ Thru, Inc.

  • DeMoulin Bros. & Co.

  • Educational Tours, Inc.

  • El Sistema

  • Excelcia Music Publishing

  • GIA Publications

  • GRAMMY Music Education Coalition

  • Halftime Magazine Harmony Helper

  • Kappa Kappa Psi

  • KRUTZ, Inc.

  • Lesbian and Gay Band Association

  • Macie Publishing Company

  • MajoringinMusic.com

  • MakeMusic

  • Manhattan Concert Productions

  • MFR Holdings,

  • LLC Music and the Brain

  • Music Together

  • MusicFirst

  • National Association of School Music Dealers

  • National Dance Institute

  • National Dance Society

  • National Music Council

  • National Organization for Arts in Health

  • Nuvo Instrumental, LLC

  • Peripole, Inc.

  • Progressive Music

  • Retail Print Music Dealers Association

  • Schmitt Music

  • Soundtrap for Education

  • Strathmore

  • Sweet Adelines International Sweetwater Sound

  • Tau Beta Sigma

  • Teaching Artists Guild

  • Teaching for Artistic Behavior

  • Teaching With Orff

  • Ted Brown Music

  • The Midwest Clinic

  • The mPowered Music Educator Academy

  • The Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance

  • The National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians

  • The Society for Online Music Education

  • The Suzuki Association of the Americas

  • Theatre Communications Group TI:ME- Technology in Music Education

  • Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation

  • WGI Sport of the Arts

  • WorldStrides

Do you represent a national organization interested in endorsing this statement? Email essential@nafme.org

The MAAE greatly appreciates the financial support provided by the Francis Family Foundation and the MAAE member organizations for
Fine Arts Education Day.

Missouri Alliance for Arts Education

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