For example, drawing or painting can give students who cannot yet read or write an outlet to express their imaginations. Many studies are being done to prove these beliefs. Even though there really is not any hard evidence to show that this belief is correct, many still believe that it is true. In the article "The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows," Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner, explain that "There is a danger in such reasoning [beliefs]. If the arts are given a role in our schools because people believe the arts cause academic improvement, then the arts will quickly lose their position if academic improvement does not result." .
The belief that art education can cause academic improvement maybe true, but many art educators believe that this is not the way to get art education more recognized. In the article "In Defense of Failure," an art educator, Jessica Hoffman Davis, explains that because of the evidence, that the arts do not help students in other subjects, she had to look for some other aspect of art to prove that it is important. Davis then looked at the failure aspect. She concluded that failure is the biggest supporter to the arts. Davis believes that failure is an important part of developmental growth for students by allowing a student to fail at a project and then fix it without doing poorly in the class. While in other subjects, students do not get to explore and fix their problems. Most believe that art is more demanding and requires more thinking in problem solving, yet more forgiving than other subjects. But, many Adversaries believe that this is the reason why art education should not be offered.
According to Heather Descollonges, in the article "Protecting Our Children from the Arts," "we live in a new age, one that depends on the use of technology and on forms of literacy that enables students to read computer-driven information systems.