Third Space: When Learning Matters
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Third Space Tool kit
Schools with large populations of students in economic poverty – often places of frustration and failure for students and teachers alike – can be transformed into vibrant and successful centers of learning and community life when the arts are infused into their culture and curriculum.

The authors adopt "third space" as a metaphor to capture the conditions the arts create in schools and the new possibilities for teaching, learning, and community that result.

Higlight Information
Third Space: Fact Sheet
Background information regarding Third Space selection criteria (MS Word Document)

Third Space: Press Release
November 15, 2005: Third Space Press Release (MS Word Document)

Ford Foundation Statement
Statement from Cyrus Driver (MS Word Document)

Third Space: Quotes
Community praise for Third Space (MS Word Document)

Case-study school profiles

Demographics of case-study schools

Map of case-study schools

Case-study School Information
Contact information for the press conference representatives of the ten case study schools (MS Word Document)

Supplemental Materials
Resources for parents, schools and community leaders
Helpful resources for parents, schools and community leaders (MS Word Document)

Federal Grant Awards
Several of the schools studied in Third Space are recipients of awards from the U.S. Department of Education’s Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants program. (MS Word Document)