A new study by a research team led by West Chester University psychologist Eleanor Brown has found that art immersion helps children better prepare for learning, writes Tom Jacobs for The Week.

The study reports that low-income children who took part in the Head Start program experience an increase in learning readiness if their program included daily art classes. Here, kids engage in music, dance, and visual arts.

“Our findings indicate that the arts may hold value not only for art’s sake, but also for advancing children’s overall school readiness,” wrote Brown.

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Published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly, the study featured 265 Philadelphia-area children between the ages of three and five – all from poor or low-income families – who took part in an arts-enrichment program.

The study found that these children showed greater growth in terms of school readiness than their peers.

Read more about the research study in The Week here.

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