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...three-year study completed by Harvard Project Zero researchers Ellen Winner '69 and Lois A. Hetland, was a synthesis of various individual studies on arts education conducted over the past 50 years...
...Nobody has ever looked carefully at the evidence," Winner said...
...Harvard researchers have cautioned that their study should not be interpreted as evidence justifying the removal of arts education programs from schools. Winner said she has already heard from educators who worry that the study will have such an effect...
...want arts to be pushed out [of schools]," Winner said...
...Winner said national figures such as First Lady Hillary Clinton and Education Secretary Richard Riley have publicly urged schools to include arts as a way to improve academic performance. Making these sorts of claims, Winner said, may backfire on arts education supporters when test scores do not increase and the programs are consequently eliminated...