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.
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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.
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Within the Arab world, many creative works are being produced that could play a role in countering violent extremism. This book examines the substantial barriers to the broad dissemination of these creative works and suggests ways to overcome them.
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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.
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Presents RAND Europe's analysis of data generated by the Vital Communities programme between October 2005 and August 2007.
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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.
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Examines what it means to cultivate demand for the arts, why it is important to do so, how it can be done though broad-based arts learning, and what state arts agencies and other policymakers in both the arts and education can do to make it happen.
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.
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This research brief describes efforts of six urban centers to expand access to arts education by developing collaborative networks among diverse organizations.
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Examines the efforts of six communities to improve arts education through coordination across multiple organizations, describing how the efforts unfolded and documenting the common and unique benefits and challenges of collaborative approaches.
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Introduces two novel ways of examining arts sectors in a range of communities and applies them to an analysis of the arts in Philadelphia.
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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.
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This research brief describes work documented in Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District's Experience (MG-222-EDU).
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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.
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MSc in computing, Imperial College London; MA in public policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Senior Policy Researcher
Ph.D. and M.A. in education, University of Michigan; B.A. in political philosophy, Michigan State University
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Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in economics, Wellesley College
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Adjunct Staff
Ph.D. in sociology, University of Wisconsin; B.A. in government, Wesleyan University
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Social Research Analyst
M.A. in English, University of California, Los Angeles
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Vice President, Global Research Talent
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Assistant Policy Analyst
M.A. in psychology, University of Minnesota
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