Arts Education

Report

How to Support More and Stronger Arts Education Partnerships in Allegheny County

This report presents findings from an exploratory study on arts partnerships in Allegheny County and identifies regional facilitators and barriers to forming, implementing, and sustaining them.

Report

Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World

Many analysts have examined the media that violent extremists use to communicate their core messages. Far less research, however, has been devoted to the growing body of creative works produced by Arab authors and artists that counter the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of violent extremism.

News Release

Improving Arts Education Is Key to Stemming Audience Decline

Policymakers have underestimated the critical role of arts learning in supporting a vibrant nonprofit cultural sector. Despite decades of effort to make high-quality works of art available to Americans, demand for the arts has failed to keep pace with supply.

Report

Vital Communities: Review and analysis of the research

Presents RAND Europe's analysis of data generated by the Vital Communities programme between October 2005 and August 2007.

News Release

Creative Collaborative Approaches Work to Maintain, Extend Arts Education in Six U.S. Urban Areas

Amid cutbacks in school arts education funding, public and private organizations in six urban regions have collaborated to expand access to arts learning for children in and outside of public school.

Report

Improving Arts Education Is Key To Stemming Audience Decline

Policymakers have underestimated the critical role of arts learning in supporting a vibrant nonprofit cultural sector. Despite decades of effort to make high-quality works of art available to Americans, demand for the arts has failed to keep pace with supply.

Research Brief

How to Cultivate Demand for the Arts

This research brief summarizes a study about what it means to cultivate demand for the arts, why it is important to do so, the role of arts learning in this effort, and arts and education policy changes needed to build future arts audiences.

Research Brief

Extending the Reach of Arts Education

This research brief describes efforts of six urban centers to expand access to arts education by developing collaborative networks among diverse organizations.

Report

Public and Private Collaboration Can Provide Arts Education, Aid Child Development

Amid cutbacks in school arts education funding, public and private organizations in six urban regions have collaborated to expand access to arts learning for children in and outside of public school.

Report

Greater Collaboration and Centralization of Functions Needed to Support Arts

The arts sector in Philadelphia and other big cities would benefit greatly from a strong local agency to coordinate cultural activities and help make arts an integral part of each community.

Report

Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District’s Experience

Examines the range of arts programming partnerships in the Los Angeles Unified School District and provides feedback from principals, teachers, arts organizations, and district arts advisors on the challenges and obstacles in these partnerships.

Research Brief

Improving Arts Education Partnerships

This research brief describes work documented in Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District's Experience (MG-222-EDU).

Report

Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts

The key to spreading the benefits of the arts is to engage greater numbers of Americans. To that end, attention and resources must be balanced between building the supply of the arts and cultivating demand for them.

Report

A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts

This report presents the findings of a RAND study that looks at the process by which individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this process.

People

Catherine H. Augustine

People

Melissa Rowe