Arts deserve a central place in the curriculum

Readers respond to Michael Rosen’s call for a new deal for the arts in schools. Michael Rosen ( Let the music in: why schools need a new deal for the arts, 2 September) presents a refreshing case for us to reframe our ideas about the school curriculum to accommodate learning in the arts for its intrinsic value. But he is well used to swimming against the tide. Like me, Rosen is old enough to remember the publication of the Gulbenkian Foundation report The Arts in Schools (1982). It was a s