As a service to the emerging field of Creative Aging, Lifetime Arts conducted a national survey to investigate and disseminate a more complete picture of teaching artist training in the field.
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.
Turnaround Arts Evaluation
In January, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) released the results of an independent study that shows substantial gains in student achievement at schools participating in its Turnaround Arts initiative. The eight schools in the pilot phase of the initiative-showing increases in reading and math scores, as well as an increase in attendance and a decrease in suspensions-demonstrate that the program’s use of the arts is having a measurable impact on low-performing schools by increasing student engagement and narrowing the achievement gap.
