President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities Issues Arts Education Report
On May 6, 2011, the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) issued a report that calls for expanding access to arts education in schools. In the report, entitled Re-Investing in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools, the PCAH argues that the arts hold great potential to bolster student engagement and academic achievement.
Over the past 18 months, the PCAH conducted an in-depth review of the current challenges and opportunities facing arts education. It found that while the value of arts education is often phrased in enrichment terms, arts education is also an effective tool in school-wide reform and can help fix some of the biggest educational challenges.
In the report, the committee outlines five recommendations that will help integrate the arts into K-12 education:
- Build robust collaborations among different approaches to arts education.
- 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.
The information and recommendations in the PCAH's report can be useful to public media stations, who are often interested in contributing to a school or community's arts education program. Read the full report here.
