Advocacy

Who Is Your Arts Program Really For? Why Culturally Responsive Arts Education Can’t Wait

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Who Is Your Arts Program For? Why Culturally Responsive Arts Education Can't Wait

Today’s students are tomorrow’s decision-makers. The students in our arts classrooms today, in music rooms, visual art studios, dance studios, and theater programs, are more culturally, linguistically, and experientially diverse than any generation before. They also have more options than the generations before them. New technologies and AI are increasingly putting creative tools directly in … Read more

What If Only 90% of Students Had Access to Math?: Why 2 Million Students Without Arts Education Should Be a National Wake-Up Call

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Read time: 6 minutes At last week’s NAfME Eastern Division conference in Hartford, Connecticut, one idea kept coming up over and over again. In sessions. In side conversations. In panel discussions. Data matters. It’s what moves decisions. It’s how budgets get made. It’s the language policymakers speak and if we want real change in arts … Read more