Arts education helps students understand and appreciate the visual and performing arts. As funding for arts curricula has dwindled, RAND research has investigated the role of arts education in enriching children's academic experiences, as well as the role of arts policy in improving access to arts education in the United States and around the world.
MULTIMEDIA
In this June 2011 Congressional Briefing, RAND researchers discuss the growing body of creative works produced by Arab authors and artists that counter the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of violent extremism, factors that thwart the distribution of such works, and policy recommendations for overcoming those barriers.
REPORT
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
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
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
Presents RAND Europe's analysis of data generated by the Vital Communities programme between October 2005 and August 2007. The Vital Communities programme provides creative and artistic activities for children, their families, and wider communities in nine locations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
NEWS RELEASE
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
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.
RESEARCH BRIEF
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
This research brief describes efforts of six urban centers to expand access to arts education by developing collaborative networks among diverse organizations.
REPORT
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
The Los Angeles Unified School District in 1999 approved a ten-year program to implement a substantive, sequential curriculum in arts education. A central goal of the plan calls for schools to build partnerships with the Los Angeles arts community to provide educational programming, beginning with elementary schools in the Arts Prototype Schools (APS) program. This study examined the range of partnerships in operation and identified…
RESEARCH BRIEF
This research brief describes work documented in Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District's Experience (MG-222-EDU).
REPORT
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.
REPORT
This report presents an introduction to the best of the growing body of literature on participation-building.
REPORT
This study represents one piece of a larger, integrated research plan to provide scientific evidence on the effectiveness of fine arts interventions in promoting positive change in youth. Building on our prior work, we collected an analyzed interview data from 35 well-known arts interventions in the Los Angeles area. Our objective was to relate expert assessments of the prosocial value of a range of fine arts interventions to specific…
REPORT
The broad goal of this study is to provide evidence that fine-arts programs can contribute in quantifiable and positive ways to solving important social problems such as crime and violence.
REPORT
This paper reports the results of the first phase of a project designed to uncover evidence that the arts can contribute to social well-being, enhance community and individual development, and help reduce escalating rates of crime and violence.
PEOPLE
Senior Policy Researcher
Ph.D. and M.A. in education, University of Michigan; B.A. in political philosophy, Michigan State University
PEOPLE
Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in economics, Wellesley College
PEOPLE
Adjunct Staff
Ph.D. in sociology, University of Wisconsin; B.A. in government, Wesleyan University
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