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 learning outcomes. This updated resource explores the demonstrated effects of music education and how it helps students develop the foundational capacities for lifelong success.
Arts Education/Youth
Beyond the Core: Advancing Student Success Through the Arts
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 considerations.
Review of Evidence: Arts Integration Research Through the Lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
This report scours research on activities that use arts to improve student achievement-an approach known as arts integration-and identifies those that qualify for federal education funding.
ESSA: Mapping opportunities for the arts
This special report highlights the ways that states and districts can engage the arts in the ongoing work of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Designed to continue growing as ESSA implementation proceeds, this report currently contains chapters exploring the opportunities for arts education within the following topics: Accountability, Assessments, Stakeholder Engagement, State Plans, Tiers of Evidence, Title I and a Well-Rounded Education.
The art of Head Start: Intensive arts integration associated with advantage in school readiness for economically disadvantaged children
The present study examined the impact of intensive arts integration on school readiness for economically disadvantaged children attending Head Start preschool. Participants were 265 children, ages 3-5 years.
The Arts and Dropout Prevention: The Power of Art to Engage
The mission of the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N) is to increase high school graduation rates and reduce school dropout rates through research, research dissemination, and the provision of evidence-based solutions. It accomplishes these goals by serving as a clearinghouse and network for evidence-based information that supports dropout
prevention. The NDPC/N provides technical assistance and other professional assistance to school districts in the United States, all in support of dropout prevention. Fifteen effective strategies (National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, n.d.) guide the work of the NDPC/N. This paper touches on several strategies as they relate to the arts and dropout prevention. The topics in this paper include (a) arts and dropout prevention, (b) arts and student engagement, and (c) identifying and developing career pathways in the arts.
