AEP is widely recognized as the leading source of objective and nonpartisan information about current and emerging arts and education research, policy, practice and issues of national significance. AEP publications summarize and present information in user-friendly language, making it accessible and practical for administrators, educators, parents, advocates and others with a stake in ensuring a complete education in American schools.
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Featured Publications
What School Leaders Can Do to Increase Arts Education (2011): 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. 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—supported by low-cost or no-cost strategies—school principals can take to increase arts education in their schools. (PDF)
Music Matters: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve, and Succeed (2011): 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 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. (PDF)
All Publications
AEP Strategic Plan 2007 – 2009 (2006)
Arts Integration Frameworks, Research & Practice: A Literature Review (2007)
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning (1999)
Creating Quality Integrated and Interdisciplinary Arts Programs (2003)
Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement (2006)
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development (2002)
Envisioning Arts Assessment (2003)
From Anecdote to Evidence: Assessing the Status and Condition of Arts Education at the State Level (2006)
Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Education (1999)
Gaining the Arts Advantage: More Lessons from School Districts that Value Arts Education (2000)
Learning Partnerships: Improving Learning in Schools with Arts Partners in the Community (1999)
Making a Case for the Arts: How and Why the Arts are Critical to Student Achievement and Better Schools (2006)
Strengthening State-Level Arts Education Partnerships (2000)
Teaching Partnerships: Report of a National Forum on Partnerships Improving Teaching on the Arts (2003)
The Art of Collaboration: Promising Practices for Integrating the Arts and School Reform (2008)
The Arts and Education: New Opportunities for Research (2004)
Third Space: When Learning Matters (2005)
Visions of the Future: Education in the Arts (2006)
Why Your Child Needs the Arts Advantage and How You Can Gain It (2000)
You Want to Be A Part of Everything: The Arts, Community, and Learning (2005)
Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections (1998)