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Keeping Art Education in Public Schools

MAKE ART SAVE ARTDOSOMETHING.ORG

• DoSomething.org is one of the largest organizations in the US that helps young people rock causes they care about. A driving force in creating a culture of volunteerism, DoSomething.org is on track to activate two million young people in 2011. By leveraging the web, television, mobile, and pop culture, DoSomething.org inspires, empowers and celebrates a generation of doers: teenagers who recognize the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action.

WHAT’S YOUR THING?http://www.dosomething.org/whatsyourthing/Education

• Create your own project.

• Become involved in current projects.

• Support projects that haven’t started yet.

• Donating.

• Advocating.

• Student help.– Applying for college.– Signing up for programs.– Getting involved in the advocacy.

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS

• Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. From offices in Washington, DC, and New York City, it serves more than 150,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders.

http://capwiz.com/artsusa/home/

• Provide leadership in support of arts education through policy action and public statements confirming the value of the arts and arts education, with particular emphasis on the benefits for students from disadvantaged circumstances and those needing remedial instruction.

• Maximize the impact of the direct federal investment in arts education by disseminating information about the outcomes of projects funded by the Arts in Education grant programs, which cultivate innovation in arts education and spur increased local support for equitable access to arts education.

• Include the arts in all research and data collection undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education regarding “core academic subjects.”

• Model Development and Dissemination projects that strengthen student learning through standards-based arts education and integration of arts instruction into other subject areas.

• Professional Development for Arts Educators grants, identifying innovative models that improve instruction for arts specialists and classroom teachers.

• Evaluation and National Dissemination, multiplying the impact of this federal investment. State and local education agencies can adapt these models to provide rigorous arts instruction for all students.

• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ ongoing national arts education initiatives, and the efforts of VSA arts to ensure the participation of people with disabilities in arts programming in schools and communities.

• http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=13158246

http://www.artsusa.org/networks/arts_education/arts_education_004.asp