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, 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.
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.
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.
