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Arts Education

The arts challenge, inspire and enlighten us, yet access to high-quality arts education is uneven and often elusive. We look at the state of arts education around the country and ask what can — and is — being done to improve the caliber and availability of arts programs in our schools.

New York City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy talks on the phone in his office in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, May 11, 2000. Levy, head of the country's largest school system, is pushing music and poetry in a system plagued with rats, guns and crumbling school buildings. "Art and music are the hook by which we get the attention of students who might otherwise drift away," Levy said.
Posted inColumnists

Remembering former NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy: A champion for children and a real mensch

Avatar photo by Liz Willen November 29, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: Trading textbooks for dance?

Sara Potler LaHayne by Sara Potler LaHayne September 27, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson July 19, 2018March 30, 2020
Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School.
Posted inElementary to High School

How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

Eveline Chao is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, NY, and the author of NIUBI! The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School. by Eveline Chao March 12, 2018March 30, 2020
Luke O’Brien with his students at Camelot Kaps in Philadelphia.
Posted inElementary to High School

TEACHER VOICE: How hip-hop erased these young students’ unfair, bad rap

by Luke O'Brien January 29, 2018December 7, 2021
Using a stuffed animal to assist with breathing techniques, fifth-grader Vermetrice relaxes during a yoga class.
Posted inElementary to High School

How one school is using yoga to improve outcomes for kids

by APM Reports November 20, 2017March 30, 2020
Carla Savinon, now a sophomore, works on a painting in her visual arts class last spring at Boston’s Margarita Muñiz Academy, where arts are a core component of the curriculum.
Posted inNews

With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson October 4, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inArts Education, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

Avatar photo by Kevin Quigley and Sara Coffey July 25, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Students in violence-wracked city learn to cope using poetry

Avatar photo by Andre Perry May 2, 2017October 21, 2020
Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world.
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: The arts help refugees, other students to master academics

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Bobby Riley and Cheri Sterman May 1, 2017March 30, 2020

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