by Brady Smith | Feb 26, 2025
This report contains four sections: access, enrollment and participation; learning; staffing and funding. Each section outlines questions, data and reporting sources, and gaps and potential barriers related to data.
by Brady Smith | Apr 26, 2024
In May 2018, the Arts Education Partnership published Music Matters. This was the first in a four-part series of special reports that used ArtsEdSearch to illustrate the many benefits of arts education. The Arts Counts series went on to publish Visual Arts Matters,...
by Brady Smith | Apr 26, 2024
AEP defines STEAM education as an approach to teaching and learning in which students demonstrate critical thinking and creative problem-solving at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, arts and math. STEAM instruction shares attributes of arts...
by Brady Smith | Aug 20, 2022
As policymakers continue to rethink, reshape and reform systems, it has become vital to involve the appropriate voices in these conversations. Inclusion of the people who are directly affected by policy and funding actions in their communities leads to equitable...
by Cassandra Quillen | Dec 7, 2021
This interactive and adaptive resource captures the insights and reflections of attendees who joined AEP’s Arts and Literacies Thinkers Meeting Series. It incorporates art and text to support different experiences and interactions as visitors explore the...
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 17, 2021
This resource explores how theatre education promotes identity development and growth, builds empathy and relationships, and empowers students to transform their understanding of their place in the world.
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 17, 2021
This resource explores how dance education promotes early development of language and literacy, supports long-term academic growth and builds connections to community.
by Gwynne Middleton | Nov 16, 2020
An Arts Education Partnership partner asked about the impact of arts instruction on student engagement in other subjects within distance learning models. Our response includes multiple research studies (published on ArtsEdSearch and elsewhere) that look at the role of...
by Gwynne Middleton | Oct 28, 2020
This Policy Brief captures the discussion, insights and policy considerations that came out of a Thinkers Meeting with 11 experts in the arts education and juvenile justice fields. It builds on the report, “Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System,” by...
by Gwynne Middleton | Sep 10, 2020
This Special Report examines how arts-based charter schools in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Maryland and North Carolina provide access to arts education and integrate the arts schoolwide across curricula, community engagement and teacher professional...
by Gwynne Middleton | Mar 31, 2020
This Special Report explores research and programs that employ the arts along the juvenile justice continuum: in prevention, intervention, transition and healing.
by JoAnne Wilkins | Sep 4, 2019
This Policy Brief shares insights from a recent Thinkers Meeting that looked beyond existing state policies and explored new pathways to guide future practice, research and policy work to support access to STEAM education for all students.
by Nate Marcarelli | Mar 11, 2019
The Arts Education Partnership reviewed multiple research studies identified within ArtsEdSearch — a national clearinghouse of rigorous arts education research — to better understand the role visual arts play in student success. This resource explores how visual arts...
by Nate Marcarelli | Sep 7, 2018
This Education Trends report explores the design and impact of CYD programs — including examples of successful programs across the country — and provides policy considerations for states looking for ways to narrow the achievement gap and support student...
by Nate Marcarelli | May 22, 2018
Building on the first release of Music Matters in 2011, the Arts Education Partnership reviewed multiple research studies identified within ArtsEdSearch — the national clearinghouse of rigorous arts education research — to explore the importance of music on student...
by Nate Marcarelli | Sep 6, 2017
This Education Trends report explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state- and local-level policy...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Mar 15, 2015
Released in March 2015, The Arts Leading the Way to Student Success: A 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education sets forth an ambitious plan for achieving the Action Agenda’s five-year aspirational goal: By the year 2020 every young person in America, at...
by Nate Marcarelli | Apr 15, 2013
AEP’s latest research bulletin, Preparing Students for the Next America: The Benefits of an Arts Education, offers a snapshot of how the arts support achievement in school, bolster skills demanded of a 21st century workforce, and enrich the lives of young people and...
by Nate Marcarelli | Jan 15, 2006
A response to the needs of policymakers, educators, parents and advocates for fact-based, non-technical language documenting the most current and compelling research on the value of arts learning.
by Nate Marcarelli | Dec 1, 2005
The benefits of arts education for teachers, students and communities as discussed in the AEP publications Third Space and Critical Links.
by Nate Marcarelli | Dec 1, 2004
This report proposes opportunities for future research on the arts and education based on a survey of the significant body of research in the field.
by Nate Marcarelli | May 22, 2002
Summary and discussion of 62 research studies examining how arts learning affects students’ social and academic skills.
by Nate Marcarelli | Oct 22, 1999
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.
by Nate Marcarelli | Jan 1, 1998
This booklet provides guiding principles and recommendations to support the development of artsbased early childhood programs and resources.
