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. ... 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 sum ... 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) re ... 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. ... 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. ... 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 Landesma ... 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 Landesma ... 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 leadershi ... 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 w ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 chan ... 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 recommendat ... 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 ... 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 the ... 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 eligib ... "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 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 ... 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 e ... 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 co ... 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 Qu ... 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. ... 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 o ...