All students, regardless of disabilities, have the right to the same educational goals and standards.
Arts Education/Youth
The Morrison School Project: Music Learning Leadership
When designing and managing educational initiatives, arts organizations must balance the demands of serving sizable numbers of students and teachers – to “reach wide” – with the corresponding need to “go deep” in a few places.
In 1999, The Music Center began a partnership with Julia B. Morrison Elementary School in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District. Our goal? To go deep, extending and enriching our understanding of critical issues and challenges in the field of arts education.
Education Leaders Institute Alumni Summit Report
Over the course of five years, the NEA brought together teams from 29 states to collaborate on ways to strengthen states’ arts education policies. The Education Leaders Institute Alumni Summit Report shares the significant findings of what the NEA, its partners, and eight participating alumni states learned together and how it informed the NEA’s arts education strategic plan.
The Economic Impact of Arts-Based After-School Programs
Our research aims to explore the potential of arts-based and other after-school activities to positively impact youth by reducing juvenile crime in the state of Rhode Island.
Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity
This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s musical identity, their instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music.
Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts
How can high-quality arts programs attract and retain low-income urban tweens? Drawing on hundreds of interviews with young people, their families, leaders of exemplary programs and others nationwide, this report offers some answers, including 10 principles for developing effective programming.
