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Welcome from the Director
Since its founding in 1995 by the National Endowment for the Art and the U.S. Department of Education, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) has become the primary forum and meeting ground for organizations to explore how the arts can transform American education.. Partnership organizations
have led the national movement to establish education standards that
include the arts. They have conducted and published groundbreaking research
on the impact of learning in the arts on student achievement. And they
have identified the policies and practical steps that will enable schools
and school districts to achieve educational excellence by incorporating
the arts into teaching and learning.
Partnership organizations affirm the central role of imagination, creativity
and the arts in culture and society; the power of the arts to enliven
and transform education and schools; and collective action through partnerships
as the means to place the arts at the center of learning. Partnership
teams are at work in every state. The teams consist of representatives
from state departments of education, state arts agencies and state alliances
for arts education as well as the state and local affiliates of national
Partnership organizations. The Partnership maintains an electronic network
of state and local teams and partnerships and provides support and resources
to strengthen their impact. The Partnership issues reports and documentation
of all of its meetings and activities on our web site.
The Arts Education Partnership publishes research and advocacy materials
supporting the role of arts education in schools. The Partnership maintains
a listserv through which organizations share and receive timely information
on issues relevant to arts education at the national and state level.
If you have further questions, please contact us by e-mail at aep@ccsso.org.
Thank you,
Richard J. Deasy
Director
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