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Allina, Babette – Arts Education Policy Review, 2018
The Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) movement argues that broad-based education that promotes creativity recognizes student learning diversity, increases student engagement and can potentially enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning by embracing cross-cutting translational skills…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Creativity, STEM Education, Art Education
Wong, Marina Wai-yee; Chik, Maria Pik-yuk – Arts Education Policy Review, 2016
An education reform policy and inclusive education policy have been implemented in Hong Kong for over a decade. As more students with special educational needs have entered the mainstream education system under these policies, Hong Kong's primary music classrooms offer a site where three policies interact--the education reform policy entitled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Inclusion
Lackey, Lara; Huxhold, Dianna – Arts Education Policy Review, 2016
This article reports on the perceptions and experiences of general elementary educators as they engage in a school reform process that requires them to learn and implement an arts infused curriculum intended to raise student achievement on standardized tests in non-arts subjects. This qualitative study reveals not only how one arts-based school…
Descriptors: Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers
Walker, Loretta Niebur – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This is the second of two articles reporting the results of a study by the author regarding the status of elementary music education in the state of Utah. This article focuses on the qualifications of Utah's elementary music teachers (music certified, elementary classroom certified, artists-in-residence, volunteers, and paraprofessionals) and the…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Music Education, Qualifications
McCarthy-Brown, Nyama – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article synthesizes current dance education research that demonstrates connections between the culturally relevant pedagogy and student academic achievement, details why the arts are exponentially important and valuable to all communities, and provides practical solutions for the everyday teacher. Through a pointed focus on culturally…
Descriptors: Dance, Poverty, Dance Education, Educational Research
Nevanen, Saila; Juvonen, Antti; Ruismäki, Heikki – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
More than 98 percent of children in Finland attend preschool, where different kinds of projects are carried out in order to strengthen the children's abilities. This article focuses on the effects of one arts education project from a school readiness point of view. The main question was, How did the Helsinki arts education project affect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness
Carvalho, Claudia Pato – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
This article discusses how biographical materials may be used in youth arts education projects to develop new methodologies and approaches that can stimulate artistic and social intervention in contemporary urban communities, thus changing the field of arts education policy at the community level. Through their creation of Artistic Society…
Descriptors: Biographies, Art Education, Youth Programs, Urban Youth
Mitchell, Donna Mathewson – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
Visual arts teachers engage in complex work on a daily basis. This work is informed by practical knowledge that is rarely examined or drawn on in research or in the development of policy. Focusing on the work of secondary visual arts teachers, this article reports on a research program conducted in a regional area of New South Wales, Australia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Arts, Art Education, Teaching Methods
Scripp, Lawrence; Ulibarri, Devin; Flax, Robert – Arts Education Policy Review, 2013
At present, there is growing scientific evidence of music's powerful, positive influence on the neurological, cognitive, and social-emotional development of all children. At the same time, a flurry of new studies now show that extensive, deliberate, and deep practice supported by an ability growth mindset--and not a fixed degree of talent--is the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Public Education, Educational Policy, Talent
Baker, Richard A., Jr. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2012
This study examined high-stakes test scores for 37,222 eighth grade students enrolled in music and/or visual arts classes and those students not enrolled in arts courses. Students enrolled in music had significantly higher mean scores than those not enrolled in music (p less than 0.001). Results for visual arts and dual arts were not as…
Descriptors: Art Education, Music Education, High Stakes Tests, Scores
Edgar, Scott – Arts Education Policy Review, 2012
Assessment of arts educators, including music educators, has evolved into a high-stakes situation that drives teacher pay, promotion, and retention. This assessment process is driven by federal policy advocating for a value-added model based on student performance. Principals, who are often charged with assessing artistic musical performance,…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Principals
Schmidt, Peter – Arts Education Policy Review, 2008
A new study has found that state requirements that students pass exit tests to graduate from high school appear to do nothing to improve achievement on federal reading and mathematics tests. The study, the results of which have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal "Educational Policy," compared the reading and math scores…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Exit Examinations, Educational Policy
Spohn, Cydney – Arts Education Policy Review, 2008
The author investigates the condition of a public school's arts education program under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and obtains teachers' perspectives on their experiences under the federal policy. The author used qualitative and quantitative approaches to conduct a case study of an Ohio public school district. The data collected revealed…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Art Education, Teacher Attitudes
Mishook, Jacob J.; Kornhaber, Mindy L. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2006
During the past twenty years, the accountability movement and its attendant testing have raised fears in the arts education community that schools will feel pressure to divert instructional time and resources toward tested areas of the curriculum, such as reading and math (Eisner 2000). This paper presents the results of studies on the impact of…
Descriptors: Testing, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Art Education
Warburton, Edward C. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2006
Students' interests in and access to disciplinary study in the arts have increased dramatically over the past fifteen years. This is due in large part to steady growth in K-12 arts programming during the 1990s, when policymakers came to view arts instruction as part of an effective response to concerns about the quality of America's schools. Arts…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Fine Arts, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Interests