The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is calling on policymakers to invest in a centralised research hub for arts and cultural learning in the UK. This call to action follows a 12-month research project called Time to Act, which found that primary school pupils exposed to the work of Shakespeare had an increase in confidence and a richer vocabulary.
Fourty five state primary schools took part in the project, and the teachers involved were guided by five days of professional development from the RSC. The schools were randomly assigned to either interact with Shakespeare in their teaching or to act as a control group. It was found that the school children who received 20 hours of Shakespeare-based teaching (compared to the control group) had:
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