Arts Education Research

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting a request from Americans for the Arts for research on arts education.

Request for Research
"Americans for the Arts is collecting any and all research about arts education conducted by state and local arts agencies. If your organization has any research on the status, quality or any other aspect of arts education in your service area, Americans for the Arts would like to catalogue and publicize it.

"The research will be used for two reasons:

1. To support arts education advocacy relating to the No Child Left Behind Act reauthorization.
   The federal government is currently collecting information about the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act. Americans for the Arts is working to collect and disseminate research, in particular, quantitative studies on the impact of NCLB on instructional time in arts education. All arts education research will be appreciated in this effort. .
2. To catalogue the research as models and sources of information in perpetuity.
   Americans for the Arts hosts the National Arts Policy Database (NAPD), a free, public, national database that can be added to by the public. This database collects research, news, program profiles and sample documents to connect members of the field to each others work.

"Americans for the Arts would like to leverage your work to improve the federal authorizing environment for arts education. We would also like to secure a place for your work in the future through the NAPD catalogue."

For more information on arts education and No Child Left Behind please visit http://www.artsusa.org/artseducation/NCLB.

For more information on the NAPD, please visit http://www.artsusa.org/NAPD