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The Art of Collaboration: Promising Practices for Integrating the Arts and School Reform (2008)

This second publication in the Arts Education Partnership’s research and policy brief series describes promising practices for building community partnerships that integrate the arts into urban education systems. The publication, which is the result of a roundtable conversation among the directors of eight of the demonstration sites participating in The Ford Foundation's Integrating the Arts and Education Reform Initiative, details the sites' early strategies and successes in the areas of organizational infrastructure; partnership development; integrated arts education; and communications and advocacy. Cost: $5.00 plus shipping.

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Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
This Compendium summarizes and discusses 62 research studies that examine the effects of arts learning on students' social and academic skills. The research studies cover each of the art forms and have been widely used to help make the case that learning in the arts is academic, basic, and comprehen ...

Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
This report compiles seven major studies that provide new evidence of enhanced learning and achievement when students are involved in a variety of arts experiences. Cost: $20.00 plus shipping ...

Making a Case for the Arts: How and Why the Arts are Critical to Student Achievement and Better Schools
This brochure describes the benefits of arts education based on new research published by the Arts Education Partnership. It can be used for many advocacy purposes. ...

Third Space: When Learning Matters
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 who ...