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Research on Arts Education
Critical
Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
This 2002 report is a compendium of research in arts education with more
than 40 summaries of studies in the disciplines of dance, drama, multi-arts,
music, and visual arts, along with essays and perspectives by leading
scholars. Published by the Arts Education Partnership, with funding from
the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Education,
Critical Links explores current practices in arts education, examines
the effect of the various arts disciplines on students’ achievement
and personal growth, and recommends future lines of research.
Champions
of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
This 1999 report compiles seven major studies that provide new evidence
of enhanced learning and achievement when students are involved in a variety
of arts experiences. Champions of Change was developed with the
support of the GE Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
the Arts Education Partnership, and the President’s Committee on
the Arts and the Humanities.
Gaining
the Arts Advantage: Lessons From School Districts That Value Arts Education
The first national study to examine the generation and sustenance of strong
arts education throughout entire school districts, this study:
- discusses the interrelating factors — educational, social, and
economic — that enhance arts education;
- provides valuable lessons from the field — from superintendents,
school board members, principals, district arts coordinators, arts teachers,
students, parents, and other community members — including strategies
for overcoming obstacles to districtwide arts education;
- examines in depth eight school systems that were observed on site
by experienced teams that included school district superintendents as
well as arts educators; and
- presents the creative solutions of 83 additional school districts
participating in this study, selected from more than 500 districts recommended.
Transforming
Education Through the Arts Challenge (TETAC)
TETAC was a project of the National Arts Education Consortium, formed
by six regional arts education institutes in California, Florida, Nebraska,
Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas in 1996. Thirty-five partner schools in eight
states engaged in a five-year project to place arts education at the core
of the curriculum and assess resulting student achievement. TETAC consortium
members explored, assessed, and documented ways in which intensive professional
development, comprehensive arts education, and systemic school reform
could transform schools and their extended communities.
TETAC was funded by the Walter H. Annenberg Foundation and the Getty
Education Institute for the Arts. The project was completed in June 2001.
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