U.S. Secretary of Education Affirms Value of Arts Education
As you may have seen, yesterday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released a letter to school officials and community leaders across the nation affirming the vital role of arts education as a core subject and supporting it as an acceptable and appropriate strategy in proposals and programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA]. |
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AEP Analysis of NAEP Arts Assessment Results
AEP Analysis of NAEP Arts Assessment Results is interpret the NAEP results within the existing research and policy contexts of education, and specifically the
effort to reform education in order to ensure complete, quality learning experiences for all students. The analysis looks at the NAEP results from four perspectives: educational access and equity, educational
quality, complete curricula, and the adequacy of research. |
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Arts and 21st Century Learning Research and Policy Agenda
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) is developing an Arts Education and 21 st Century Learning Research and Policy Agenda. The Agenda will provide a conceptual road map to guide the next generation of educational research and ensure that it drives and is informed by educational policy. |
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AEP Summary and Analysis of Education Stimulus Funding
AEP provides a summary and analysis of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Saving and Creating Jobs and Reforming Education, otherwise known as the Stimulus Bill. |
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AEP Summary and Analysis of GAO Report, “Access to Arts Education”
The AEP has summarized and analyzed the new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the status of arts education in schools, Access to Arts Education: Inclusion of Additional Questions in Education’s Planned Research Would Help Explain Why Instruction Time Has Decreased for Some Students. Click here to read the AEP’s summary and analysis. |
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“The Arts Education Effect” – Education Week features online commentary by Sandra Ruppert
On September 23, 2009, Education Week online published an online commentary by AEP Director Sandra Ruppert analyzing the results and implications of the 2008 NAEP Arts Assessment. Throughout the week of its appearance it was in the top three read and emailed articles on the site. |
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AEP Presentation: Research Requirements in Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund
AEP has prepared an additional PowerPoint presentation that explains the research and evidence requirements in the Investing in Innovation (i3) draft guidelines. Applicants will need to understand these research requirements in order to craft competitive applications. |
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"States of Change: New Leadership in Arts and Education" AEP Spring National Forum Information
AEP will be having its Spring 2010 National Forum on April 9-10, 2010 in Washington, DC. The theme is "States of Change: New Leadership in Arts and Education." Click here to find new information on the Forum. |
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AEP Presentation on Guidelines for Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund
AEP has prepared a PowerPoint presentation that unpacks the draft guidelines for the U.S. Education Department’s new Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund. This new grant category is unique in that eligible applicants may include nonprofit organizations. |
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New AEP Wire - NEA Survey of Public Participation in the Arts: Implications for Arts Learning
The National Endowment for the Arts released the results of the 2008 Arts Participation Survey on December 10, 2009. The SPPA, as it is widely known, is collected periodically by the US Census Bureau as part of its Current Population Survey. It measures multiple specific participation indicators, including attendance at performing arts events, museum visits, and literary reading; however, it does not measure attitudes towards arts or participation. This year’s study has some particularly interesting, if sobering, data about arts participation, including some implications for arts learning. |
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New Commentary - The Role of Arts Learning in the ESEA Reauthorization, Remarks by Sandra Ruppert 1/20/2010
On January 20, 2010, the U.S. Department of Education held a meeting to discuss ESEA reauthorization with various arts stakeholders, providing an opportunity for those stakeholders to make recommendations on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as it relates to arts learning in particular. |
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New AEP Commentary: Creativity, Innovation and Arts Learning -- Preparing All Students for Success in a Global Economy
Creativity and innovation are on everyone’s minds these days. Read the latest from AEP Director Sandra Ruppert on some key questions and concrete solutions for how creativity can be resourced and channeled for student and economic success. |
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AEP Webinar: President’s Fiscal Year 2011 Request for the Department of Education
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) held a webinar on March 5, 2010 to review the President’s Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request for the Department of Education. Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, was available during the webinar to comment on aspects of the budget proposal affecting arts education. Both the PowerPoint presentation and audio recording are available. |
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New AEP Wire: Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art
In the late 1990s, James Catterall and colleagues analyzed data from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88), a study of some 25,000 secondary school students over four years, and found significant connections between high involvement in arts learning and general academic success. In 2009 Catterall analyzed ten additional years of data related to the same cohort of students, now age 26. The results, presented in, Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art, strongly connect arts learning with both general academic success and pro-social outcomes. This study provides important empirical evidence of the significant role that the arts play in preparing young people for success, both in academia and in life. Its implications for the education of underserved and English Language Learners are particularly significant, given the compelling need to improve the educational opportunities available to urban inner-city and ELL students. AEP has summarized the findings in the latest edition of its Wire. |
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New AEP Wire Focuses on Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund
The U.S. Department of Education’s new Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund provides a competitive pool of $650 million for qualified local education agencies and nonprofit organizations in partnership with local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of schools to implement innovative school reform measures that increase student achievement. A new AEP Wire provides information on this new grant program, focusing on the topics of Eligibility and Evidence, and is based on the March 19 Baltimore workshop and the PowerPoint presentation included in that workshop. |
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AEP Director Sandra Ruppert Highlights Characteristics of Leadership in Plenary Opening
At the Opening Plenary Session of the Spring 2010 AEP National Forum, States of Change: New Leadership in Arts and Education, AEP Director Sandra Ruppert outlined ways in which we can summon leadership to meet the compelling challenges facing our nation. “All of us,” Ruppert noted, “must be prepared at one time or another to step up and become leaders, to use our knowledge to solve problems at the level at which we work.” Drawing from the seminal thinking of educational leader and pioneer John W. Gardner, Ruppert cited six key habits of mind through which leaders distinguish themselves. The full text of her remarks is posted on the AEP Website here. |
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Secretary of Education Duncan Confirms Role of Arts in Complete Education at AEP Forum
Appearing together in a unique joint session at the AEP Spring 2010 National Forum on April 9, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman confirmed their support for a complete education that includes the arts. Secretary Duncan cited the power of arts learning to boost student achievement and improve college graduation, and noted, “arts education is essential to stimulating the creativity and innovation that will prove critical to young Americans competing in a global economy.” |
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NEA Chairman Landesman Confirms Role of Arts in Complete Education at AEP Forum
Appearing together in a unique joint session at the AEP Spring 2010 National Forum on April 9, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman confirmed their support for a complete education that includes the arts. Chairman Landesman also portrayed the arts as crucial to student success: “The arts provide us with new ways of thinking, new ways to draw connections…and they help maintain our competitive edge by engendering innovation and creativity.” |
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MUSIC MATTERS: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve, and Succeed
Beyond the intrinsic value of music to cultures worldwide, education in music has benefits for young people that transcend the musical domain. In this bulletin, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) reviewed an extensive body of research to identify high-quality, evidence-based studies that document student learning outcomes associated with an education in and through music. |
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NOW AVAILABLE! What School Leaders Can Do To Increase Arts Education
AEP's guide for school leaders on no-cost or low-cost strategies to increase arts education in their schools is now available for sale or for download as a pdf. |
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OK A+ Schools Wire Part 1
This report documents the first five years of the OAS arts integration whole-school reform model and its effects on teachers, students, schools and communities. This Wire is the first of two Wires summarizing the OAS study and focuses on student success and teacher engagement. A second Wire will focus on the OAS network's effects on schools and communities. |
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Supporting Structures for Arts Education in the 21st Century
Supplementary document to the 21st Century Skills Arts Map released by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and six arts education professional associations on July 15, 2010. |
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New AEP Wire on Visual Art Education and No Child Left Behind
Summary and analysis of a recent study on the effects of NCLB on visual art educators and their classrooms. |
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What School Leaders Can Do To Increase Arts Education
As the top building-level leaders, school principals play a key role in ensuring every student receives a high-quality arts education as part of a complete education. In a time of shrinking budgets and shifting priorities, what can school principals do to make and keep the arts strong in their schools?
This brochure-length guide, prepared by the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) with support from the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) offers three concrete actions school principals can take to increase arts education in their schools. Each action is supported with several low-cost or no-cost strategies that other school leaders have used and found to be effective. While many of the strategies are drawn from elementary schools, they are likely to be applicable in a variety of grade levels.
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Music Matters: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve, and Succeed
Beyond the intrinsic value of music to cultures worldwide, education in music has benefits for young people that transcend the musical domain. In this bulletin, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) reviewed an extensive body of research to identify high-quality, evidence-based studies that document student learning outcomes associated with an education in and through music.
Music Matters: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve and Succeed was prepared by the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) with support from the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium. Music Matters shows conclusively that: music education equips students to learn; music education facilitates student academic achievement; and music education develops the creative capacities for lifelong success. |
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