September
13, 2012: Michigan Youth Arts, the Michigan Council for Arts
and Cultural Affairs, the Michigan Department of Education,
and ArtServe Michigan today released the results of the
first comprehensive study of arts education in Michigan
schools. The survey set out to determine: What is the status
of arts education at the school building level? What
role does arts education play in overall school curriculum?
How do arts education programs vary between schools?
Jennifer H. Goulet, President and CEO of
ArtServe Michigan, commenting on the survey findings said,
"The academic curriculum must include opportunities for all
children to have access to learning through the arts,
regardless of their geography or fiscal health of their
schools, communities or families. Learning through the arts
shapes young minds to be innovative problem-solvers,
develops valuable teamwork skills, and strengthens academic
achievement across the curriculum."
Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best
Edutopia is an
extensive website which deals with What Works in
Education through the George Lucas Educational
Foundation. This particular article, Why Arts
Education is Crucial, and Who's Doing it Best, is
germane and timely. Once on the site the reader will find
many and varied categories to pursue and peruse. Check it
out
here.
Congressional Arts Handbook 2010
Published by Americans for the Arts, this
Congressional Arts Handbook 2010 should be a
useful tool. It contains a Directory of National
Cosponsors, Issue briefs: BY2011 Interior Appropriations;
Issue Briefs: FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations;
Issue Briefs: Tax Policy; U.S. House of Representatives
Voting Record; U.S. Senate Voting Record; Directories of
the Congressional Arts Caucus & Senate Culture Caucus;
U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Contact
Information, and much more.
Check it out here.
Parents
for the Arts Advisory: Outreach that Resonates and Motivates
A
new research study spearheaded by Douglas Gould and Company,
executed by FDR Group, and funded by the Ford Foundation,
identifies what motivates parents to act on behalf of arts
education. The results of this study are presented in the
arts advocacy guide: Parents for the Arts Advisory:
Outreach that Resonates and Motivates, which offers
messaging and recommendations on how to talk to parents
about the value of arts education, and empower them to be
active advocates for arts in schools.
Recommendations
for policy makers, K-12 educators, higher education,
artists, and citizens, based on the 2006 Status of Arts
Education Survey of Mississippi's K-12 Schools
This publication was funded in part by the
Mississippi Arts Commission and the Wallace Foundation, and
is a product of the Take Part! Project.
Arts Education Partnership
(AEP). Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student
Achievement responds to the needs of policymakers,
educators, parents and advocates for fact-based,
non-technical language documenting the most current and
compelling research on the value of arts learning
experiences.
Third
Space tells the riveting story of the profound
changes in the lives of kids, teachers, and parents in ten
economically disadvantaged communities across the country
that place their bets on the arts as a way to create great
schools. The schools become caring communities where kids -
many of whom face challenges of poverty, the need to learn
English, and to surmount learning difficulties - thrive and
succeed and where teachers find new joy and satisfaction in
teaching.
One cannot help but wonder what our schools and our
society for that matter would be like if all students had
the opportunities of students described in this wondrous
volume.
Cyrus Driver, Ford Foundation
View
findings of A Community Audit for Arts Education
conducted during 2004 in five select Mississippi
communities: Cleveland, Meridian, Oxford, Picayune and Stone
County.
This document serves as a
guide for state and local arts and education leaders to
learn more about the federal No Child Left Behind Act and
the multiple opportunities for arts education. It provides a
brief overview of the legislation including where to find
specific references to the arts, descriptions of individual
programs with arts specific examples that have received
funding, and links to web sites for additional information.
Updated in 2004, the latest version includes fiscal year
2004 appropriation figures, new program descriptions such as
Supplemental Services, and an easy-to-navigate table of
contents (click on Bookmarks on the left side of your
screen). Originally offered in 2002, No Subject Left
Behind has been a work in progress and it may continue to
be updated periodically. No Subject Left Behind is
available in PDF format. If you do not have the latest
version of
Adobe Acrobat, click here to download a free copy.
No
Subject Left Behind is a collaborative effort of the
following organizations: Arts Education Partnership,
American Arts Alliance, American Association of Museums,
American Symphony Orchestra League, Americans for the Arts,
Association of Art Museum Directors, Association of
Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, The John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts/ Kennedy Center Alliance for
Arts Education Network, MENC: The National Association for
Music Education, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies,
OPERA America, Theatre Communications Group, VSA Arts.
April 2003
The Arts Education Partnership
publication For the Greater Good:Frameworks for Advancing State Arts Education
Partnerships features the MAAE. To download
and read the document, go to:
http://www.nasaa-arts.org/publications/GreaterGood.doc
The strategies of this initiative as
stated in its forward:
To explore what state-level arts education support
networks could accomplish.
To foster the professional development and leadership
skills of state arts agency arts education managers.
To enhance communication and the sharing of
information about arts education.
A National Assembly of State Arts Agencies' report
documents what was learned during a November 2001 workshop
that brought together leaders from the state-level arts
education support networks in Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi,
Ohio and South Carolina. These leaders, representing state
arts agencies, state alliances for arts education and state
departments of education, assessed, shared and analyzed
their successes and challenges so that other states
interested in advancing their own arts education
relationships could have a road map. (Source of quote:
www.nasaa-arts.org)
November 2002
The Arts Education Partnership is
pleased to announce three new publications that are
available for download in PDF format from the website
http://www.aep-arts.org.
Teaching Partnerships: Report of a National Forum
on Partnerships Improving Teaching of the Arts
Envisioning Arts Assessment
Transforming Education Through the Arts
August 2002
Critical Links: Learning in the
Arts and Student Academic Achievement and Social
Development
The nation's schools are being challenged to make
sure "no child is left behind" as they strive to help all
students reach the level of achievement essential for
success in school, work, and life in the 21st century.
This new
Compendium of arts education research studies explores
critical links between learning in the arts and the
nation's ability to successfully meet this goal.
Critical Links, for the first time,
brings together a group of studies focused on understanding
the cognitive capacities developed in learning and
practicing the arts and the relationship of those capacities
to students' academic performance and social development.
Compendium studies also examine achievement motivations,
attitudes, and dispositions toward learning and fostered
through learning and practicing the arts and the link
between these motivations and academic performance and
social development.
The studies suggest that for certain
populations--including young children, students from
economically disadvantaged circumstances, and students
needing remedial instruction--learning in the arts may be
uniquely able to advance learning success in other areas.
Arts and Economic Prosperity, a study by
Americans for the Arts that confirms the role of the
nonprofit arts as an economic engine in large and small
communities across the country. The study reports an annual
$134 billion generated in national economic activity and
4.85 million equivalent full-time jobs supported. For more
information,
click here.
August
2002 Planning an Arts-Centered School:
A Handbook
Planning an Arts-Centered School: A Handbook is
comprised of eighteen essays by artists and educators
highlighting best practices and offering approaches from
their varied experiences in the development of successful
arts-centered schools. There is also a prolegomenon and an
opening commentary.
The Handbook was designed to guide organizations in
essential issues including: curriculum development,
governance, funding, assessment, and community
participation. Appendices offer valuable resource
information.
http://www.dana.org/books/press/artshandbook/
Other
Publications
The Mississippi Alliance for Arts
Education publishes a newsletter Arts InPrint three
times a year. In addition, a new advocacy brochure
was produced in January 2001. Copies of these
publications, which highlight advocacy issues and arts
education news in the state, are available by request
from Lola Norris, Executive Director.
E-mail address: lola.norris@usm.edu Street address: 101 Carrie Road
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Phone: (601) 268-6996
The Arts Education Partnership and the
President's Committee for the Arts and Humanities have
published Gaining the Arts Advantage: More Lessons
from School Districts that Value the Arts. The
publication is a sequel to item #6 below. To order
copies, e-mail
aep@ccsso.org or call (202) 326-8693
The Evidence Is In: The Arts Impact
Learning by Richard J. Deasy and Harriet Mayor
Fulbright. This commentary was published in the January
24, 2001 issue of Education Week and may be
viewed on line at http://www.edweek.org.
The Arts Beyond the School Day:
Extending the Power is a report of the
After-School Protocol Task Force released in November
2000. The report includes guidelines for quality
after-school programs in the arts and represents a joint
initiative of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts
Education Network (KCAAEN) and the Kennedy Center's
Partners in Education program. To request a copy call
the KCAAEN National Office at (202) 416-8845.
Champions of Change: The Impact of
the Arts on Learning compiles the results of seven major arts education
research projects. The report is available on line at www.pcah.gov
Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons
from School Districts That Value Arts Education provides arts education
supporters with both evidence of why the arts are
critical to teaching and learning and how to
build strong district-wide arts education. Visit www.aep-arts.org
to learn more.
Learning Partnerships: Improving
Learning in Schools with Arts Partners in the Community
offers guidance to community leaders from the arts,
education, business, civic and government sectors who
seek to combine their talents and resources in
partnership to address the arts and arts education needs
of the young people of their community. Copies may be
ordered from the Chief State School Officers
Publications Office by calling (202) 326-8693 or by
e-mail: aep@ccsso.org.
Web site: http://aep-arts.org.
September
13, 2012: Michigan Youth Arts, the Michigan Council for Arts
and Cultural Affairs, the Michigan Department of Education,
and ArtServe Michigan today released the results of the
first comprehensive study of arts education in Michigan
schools. The survey set out to determine: What is the status
of arts education at the school building level? What
role does arts education play in overall school curriculum?
How do arts education programs vary between schools?
A
new research study spearheaded by Douglas Gould and Company,
executed by FDR Group, and funded by the Ford Foundation,
identifies what motivates parents to act on behalf of arts
education. The results of this study are presented in the
arts advocacy guide: Parents for the Arts Advisory:
Outreach that Resonates and Motivates, which offers
messaging and recommendations on how to talk to parents
about the value of arts education, and empower them to be
active advocates for arts in schools.
Recommendations
for policy makers, K-12 educators, higher education,
artists, and citizens, based on the 2006 Status of Arts
Education Survey of Mississippi's K-12 Schools
Why
is it so important to keep the arts strong in our schools?
How does the study of the arts contribute to student
achievement and success? 
Third
Space tells the riveting story of the profound
changes in the lives of kids, teachers, and parents in ten
economically disadvantaged communities across the country
that place their bets on the arts as a way to create great
schools. The schools become caring communities where kids -
many of whom face challenges of poverty, the need to learn
English, and to surmount learning difficulties - thrive and
succeed and where teachers find new joy and satisfaction in
teaching. 
