| 1988: |
The National Endowment for the Arts issues
its Congressionally mandated report, Toward Civilization,
that finds the arts in jeopardy in America's schools and makes a
series of recommendations for improving arts teaching and learning. |
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| 1989: |
President George Bush and the nation's
Governors agree on a set of National Education Goals, but exclude
the arts. Advocates unite in a nationwide campaign to have the arts
added to the goals. |
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| 1991: |
The National Assessment Governing Board
approves inclusion of the arts in the National Assessment of Educational
Progress. A national assessment is scheduled in 1996. |
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| 1992: |
U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander
announces an "America 2000 Arts Education Partnership"
to act on the recommendations in Toward Civilization. He
also encourages the formation of the Arts Education Partnership
Working Group, led by the Kennedy Center's then chairman, James
Wolfensohn, and the Getty Trust's then president, Harold Williams.
The Group issues the report, The Power of the Arts to Transform
Education. |
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| 1994: |
The Clinton Administration adds the arts
to the core subjects in the National Education Goals as part of
the Goals 2000: Educate America Act passed by Congress and signed
by the President. The Consortium of National Arts Education Associations
directed by the Music Educators National Conference publishes The
National Arts Education Standards. The Arts Education Assessment
Framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress
is published by the National Assessment Governing Board. The Framework
is the outcome of the National Assessment Consensus Project, coordinated
by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Following a conference
co sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S.
Department of Education, the report, Arts Education Research
Agenda for the Future, is jointly released to stimulate arts
education research. |
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| 1994: |
U. S. Secretary of Education Richard
Riley and NEA Chairman Jane Alexander convene more than 100 national
organizations in a Goals 2000 Arts Education Planning Process to
address three objectives: to affirm the arts as fundamental to quality
education and reform, to articulate how the arts can contribute
to achieving the National Education Goals, and to identify how individuals
and organizations could work together to assure that the arts become
a central component of state and local education reform plans. Participants
produce a plan: The Arts and Education: Partners in Achieving
our National Education Goals. They recommend "the development
of an ongoing partnership among the participating organizations."
The U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for
the Arts agree to support the development of this "Goals 2000
Arts Education Partnership." |
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| 1995: |
The U.S. Department of Education and
the National Endowment for the Arts in June enter into a cooperative
agreement with the Council of Chief State School Officers and National
Assembly of State Arts Agencies to provide administrative support
for the Partnership. The Partnership begins operations and holds
its first meeting of participating organizations in October, 1995.
National forums on critical issues and trends in education and the
arts become a central Partnership activity. |
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| 1998: |
The Partnership conducts a national teleconference,
Arts Literacy for a Changing America in cooperation with
the U.S. Department of Education to discuss the findings of the
1997 arts assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational
Progress. |
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| 1999: |
The Partnership is renamed the "Arts Education Partnership."
The Partnership releases the first of its seminal reports and
research publications Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from
School Districts that Value Arts Education at an event in
a New York City public school with Hillary Clinton and Jane Pauley.
The report offers case studies and profiles of 91 school districts
across the country that offer arts education throughout the K-12
levels.
The Partnership releases Champions of Change: The Impact
of the Arts on Learning that compiles seven major studies
that provide evidence of the of enhanced learning and achievement
when students are involved in a variety of arts experiences.
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| 2000: |
The Partnership Steering Committee adopts
a new strategic plan for 2000-2003. It sets a precedent for future
activity as it establishes a series of goals and outcomes, priorities
for collective action and guidance as to how partners can play an
active role in the Partnership. |
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| 2002: |
The Bush Administration and Congress
enact the "No Child Left Behind Act," and include the
arts as a core academic subject. The U.S. Department of Education
and the National Endowment for the Arts continue their commitment
to the Partnership through a cooperative agreement with the Council
of Chief State School Officers and National Assembly of State Arts
Agencies.
The Partnership and its partnering organizations publish No
Subject Left Behind, an analysis of the opportunities to support
arts education in NCLB. The guide is updated annually with appropriation
figures and featured on AEP's web site.
The Partnership releases Critical Links: Learning in the
Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a groundbreaking
compendium of research, at the National Press Club in Washington,
D.C. Many major news outlets featured stories on the research
including USA Today.
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| 2003: |
The Partnership releases its Strategic
Plan for 2004-06 which identifies priorities for collective action
in public support, standards and assessment, pursuing available
data, securing federal and state funds, identifying and disseminating
research, increasing partnerships, targeting higher education and
national education associations, and focusing on promising practices
in professional development. |
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| 2005: |
The Partnership celebrates its 10th anniversary
in October in Charleston, SC.
The Partnership releases Third Space: When Learning Matters,
a book discussing the findings of a three year study of the role
of the arts in transforming high poverty schools, described by
commentators as "an alternative vision of both the process
and result of school reform."
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| 2006: |
The Partnership Steering Committee of
more than forty organizations develops the AEP Strategic Plan: 2007-2009
and the AEP Strategic Communications Plan: 2006-2008. The plans
adopt assumptions that the arts can play a crucial role in the public
concern for a more comprehensive educational experience for all
students that prepares them for success and contributions in complex,
diverse, and technologically driven global societies and economies.
The Partnership in cooperation with the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies releases Critical Evidence: How the ARTS
Benefit Student Achievement, a summary of its prior research
findings, placing them in the context of current policy debates
and public attitudes.
The Partnership publishes From Anecdote to Evidence: Assessing
the Status and Condition of Arts Education at the State Level,
based on the principles and practices of five states where data
collection has influenced state arts education policy and funding.
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