Many executives believe that arts education and engagement throughout life significantly improve workforce skills and have contributed to their own career success. Our research – the first that specifically studied the role of arts engagement on workforce skills – shows that executives believe there is a strong connection between one’s arts education and his or her potential for professional success. Therefore, to deprive students access to arts-related skills may also deprive them of workforce skills. When access to arts education is not available to all students, this skills gap becomes an opportunity gap as well.
Arts Education/Youth
Arts and K-12 Education
This essay looks at pending changes within the K–12 American formal education system and the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years.
Arts, Prisons, and Rehabilitation
This essay looks at changes in the American prison system and the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years.
At the Crossroads of Arts and Equity
The California Alliance for Arts Education has identified an effective set of approaches to address student access, achievement, and engagement to achieve equity in California schools.
A Young Picasso or Beethoven could be the Next Edison
Good news for parents: Those piano lessons or random toy parts littering your floors may one day lead to the next scientific breakthrough.
Cortical Thickness Maturation and Duration of Music Training: Health-Promoting Activities Shape Brain Development
Objective
To assess the extent to which playing a musical instrument is associated with cortical thickness development among healthy youths.
