PCAH Report on Arts Education Cites GIA Thought Leader Forum
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) has published its report Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools. The report was produced with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and represents the culmination of 18 months of research, meetings with stakeholders, and site visits all over the country. It represents an in-depth review of the current condition of arts education, including an update of the current research base about arts education outcomes. Cited in the report is the GIA Thought Leader Forum on Arts and Education
as well as the report prepared by John McCann, published in the Fall 2010 issue of GIA Reader. It also includes a set of recommendations to federal, state and local policymakers:
- Build collaborations among different approaches
- Develop the field of arts integration
- Expand in-school opportunities for teaching artists
- Utilize federal and state policies to reinforce the place of arts in K-12 education
- Widen the focus of evidence gathering about arts education