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Arts in education is an expanding field of educational research and practice informed by investigations into learning through arts experiences. In this context, the arts can include Performing arts education (dance, drama, music), literature and poetry, storytelling, Visual arts education in film, craft, design, digital arts, media and photography. [1]
The NEA has initiated a number of other arts education partnerships and initiatives, which include: The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) [18] AEP convenes forums to discuss topics in arts education, publishes research materials supporting the role of arts education in schools, and is a clearinghouse for arts education resource materials.
The Center for Arts Education was founded in 1996 to restore and sustain arts education in New York City's public schools after two decades of system-wide cutbacks in funding for arts programs. The fiscal budget crisis of the 1970s [ 1 ] immediately impacted the City's commitment to arts education.
As barely one in five public schools in California has full-time art or music teacher, schools must spend 80% of Prop. 28 funding on teachers and aides, with the rest for supplies and materials.
With budget cuts and shifting policies surrounding in-school arts education on the forefront of everyone’s mind and seemingly every politician’s political agenda, the importance and necessity ...
Leslie Odom Jr. said having an arts education has helped him become a better person, and that it benefits young people planning on pursuing more than just entertainment-based careers. “My arts ...
TeachRock is an education initiative created by the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by musician, actor and activist Steven Van Zandt.The initiative is based in New York City and aims to provide free standards-aligned, arts-integration curriculum and professional development workshops to K-12 schools nationwide.
Save the Music was founded in response to the budget cuts of the 1990s that decreased arts education in public schools, particularly in urban areas. [1] Although research demonstrated its positive impact on math, literacy, and science skills, in addition to cognitive, cultural, and social development, children's access to music education in public schools was reduced.