Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
http://www.nasaa-arts.org/publications/critical-evidence.pdf
This article explains what the research says about how the study of, and participation in, arts impacts academic achievement.

Conversation with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/huckabee.htm
Governor Huckabee explains why arts education is important and how he’s trying to promote this message.

Critical Links Summary
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/catterall.htm
The authors summarize their findings of how arts integration has 84 distinguishable effects on students.

Art Education Serves Teaching and Learning
http://www.naea-reston.org/pdf/10_ArtRe.pdf
This article discusses integrating art into the curriculum, and doing so while holding teachers and students accountable for the arts education.

Three Rs Are Essential, but Don’t Forget the A - the Arts
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3789/
This article advocates implementing arts into the daily classroom by stressing the benefits of an art-enriched curriculum.

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
http://www.naea-reston.org/tenlessons.html
A list of the ten lessons students learn from studying and participating in art, by Eliot Eisner.

Highlights of the Arts Education Research
http://www.americansforthearts.org/public_awareness/
This site offers the highlights of research demonstrating the connection between arts and academic achievement.

Keeping the Arts in School
http://www.sapulpadailyherald.com/cnhi/sapulpadailyherald/homepage
/local_story_031113752.html?keyword=leadpicturestory
This newspaper article explains why arts curriculum should remain in public schools, even with the emphasis on basic education created by NCLB.

Fine Arts Courses Tied to Higher Academic Rating
http://www.tmea.org/025_Advocacy/FineArtsCourseImpactPressReleaseandSummary.pdf
The Texas Coalition for Arts Education reports on the connection between arts involvement and high academic achievement.

My Child, the Arts, and Learning
http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Resources/Materials/CAE_ParentGuide.pdf
This parent guide addresses arts education in kindergarten through second grade.