The State of the States 2016 summarizes state policies for arts education identified in statute or code for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Arts Education/Youth
The Practice of Partnership: High-Impact Arts Education Partnerships with K-12 Schools
The MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education (PIAE) program, begun in 2005, developed out of shared fundamental values of the MetLife Foundation and the National Guild for Community Arts Education. Their common beliefs were that access to arts education must be universal, must address issues of inequity, and must take place over a sustained period to have durable impact. The two institutions chose to invest in the development of the practice of partnership because they recognized that the ability to partner well makes a significant difference in the quality of arts learning.
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).
Unmasking Business Success: Executive Perceptions of Arts Engagement and Workforce Skills
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.
3rd Year Project Update: Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation
The Art of Science Learning (AOSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative exploring innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning by using the arts to spark creativity in STEM education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. Our current project, funded by NSF grant DRL-1224111 (“Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”), has developed a new curriculum using the arts to teach innovation processes to adolescent and adult learners; implemented the curriculum in year-long arts-based Incubators for STEM Innovation; and studied arts-based learning’s impact on creative thinking skills, collaborative behaviors and innovation outcomes.
Why Making Music Matters: Singing, Playing, Moving & Sharing in the Early Years
In this booklet, we think of music quite broadly: yes, singing and playing instruments, but also experimenting with words and sounds, playing games, and moving to music. In these pages we explore what basic research, early childhood programs, and family experiences have to say about the importance of informal musical activities in the lives of children and families.
