December 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for December 2023. Research A Group of Scientists Set Out to Study Quick Learners. Then They Discovered They Don’t Exist “The study offers the hope that “anyone can learn anything they want” if they get well-designed practice exercises and put some effort into it.  Raw […]

November 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for November 2023. Research How Universal Design for Learning Helps Students Merge Onto the ‘Learning Expressway’ “Developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), UDL provides a framework for educators to create inclusive learning environments … In UDL, teachers provide students with multiple […]

August 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for August 2023. Research Can Young Children Learn from Educational Apps? “Parents often hear about the dangers of screen time for children, but rarely does there seem to be a distinction among different types of screen time. In particular, apps on smartphones or touchscreen devices for […]

July 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for July 2023. Research ‘Guided Play’ Benefits Kids—But What Does That Look Like For Parents? “Parents are under a lot of pressure these days: They need to support children’s emotional development after a traumatic few years of the pandemic, address learning loss and prepare […]

May 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for May 2023. Research How Arts Education Builds Better Brains and Better Lives “Art enhances the ability of the hippocampus and the other areas of your brain to perform the tasks that they were designed to do by increasing the synaptic circuits. This helps […]

April 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for April 2023. Research Gun Violence Archive 2023“Gun violence  and crime incidents are collected/validated from 7,500 sources daily – Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.” Gun Violence Archive When Parents Practice Good Screen Habits, It Rubs Off On […]

March 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for March 2023. Research Women’s History Month: These Female Trailblazers Changed American Education For You and Your Kids. Do You Know Their Names? “Many female teachers have altered the lives of millions of students, but history has hardly remembered their names. That’s why, […]

January 2023 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for January 2023. Research The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2022 “SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research, today released the Arts Vibrancy Index, which examines the level of supply, demand, and government support of the arts in more than 900 […]

December 2022 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for December 2022. Research The Arts Education Data Toolkit “Since late 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts has collaborated with Education Commission of the States to promote more and better information on young people’s access to, and participation in, arts education. Together, we […]

November 2022 | Arts Ed RECAP

Read all the research, news, and policy in our arts education RECAP for November 2022. Research The 5-minute Daily Playtime Ritual that Can Get Your Kids to Listen Better “The concept, developed by psychologist Sheila Eyberg in the 1970s, is simple. For at least 5 minutes a day, sit down with your child and join them […]