The creative industries have long been seen as an innovative sector. More recent research posits that creative occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation.
Arts Education/Youth
Special Report on Education 2011: Indispensable Resources
Since 1999, the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has been leading the way in providing theater professionals with the latest research, statistics and teaching methods arts education. TCG recently released their “Special Report on Education 2011: Indispensable Resources,” which reveals that workshops and classes in school have now become the most common form of arts education programming. The report compiles the essential arts education resources from the past year along with results from TCG’s Education Survey 2011. PRESS RELEASE
Facts & Figures: data on the benefits and decline of arts education
Through a partnership with Vans Custom Culture, Americans for the Arts has designed the Arts Education Navigator, a series of e-books designed to help educators, students, and advocates alike navigate the complex field of arts education. Each e-book in the Navigator series below will cover a specific topic, ensuring arts education supporters like you are equipped with the knowledge, statistics, and case-making techniques needed to effectively communicate with decision-makers. This one is a wrap-up of different facts and figures to present when arguing for more arts education in schools.
Arts Education Navigator – “Facts and Figures”
Through a partnership with Vans Custom Culture, Americans for the Arts has designed the Arts Education Navigator, a series of e-books designed to help educators, students, and advocates alike navigate the complex field of arts education. Each e-book in the Navigator series below will cover a specific topic, ensuring arts education supporters like you are equipped with the knowledge, statistics, and case-making techniques needed to effectively communicate with decision-makers. This issue: Facts & Figures: data on the benefits and decline of arts education.
ON DEMAND WEBINAR: Arts Education webinar — Collective Impact
On March 20, 2013, John Kania, managing director of FSG, presented his research into the uses of “collective impact” by the social sector, followed by a discussion with NEA Director of Arts Education Ayanna Hudson. Both Kania and Hudson then took questions from the public.
As defined by FSG, collective impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a complex social problem. The webinar examined how collective impact can help federal, state, and local leaders move forward in a common direction.
A Policy Pathway: Embracing Arts Education to Achieve Title I Goals
How can we improve educational outcomes for low-income students who are often underserved in public schools? This is the challenge to which Title I—a federal funding stream targeting assistance to students from low socioeconomic backgrounds—addresses itself. Schools and districts receiving Title I funds are charged with using these additional resources to supplement their regular education programs, in particular, to support qualifying students’ achievement in English Language Arts and mathematics and parent involvement with schools. A substantial body of research demonstrates that certain forms of arts education can be an asset to schools and districts in achieving these goals.
