Arts education

A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

In Baltimore, public schools hide math and literacy instruction in a summer arts academy

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – July 19, 2018

Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School.

How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

A program founded by a former Broadway star is part of a growing movement to introduce students to theater at younger ages

K-12

by  Eveline Chao  – March 12, 2018

Luke O’Brien with his students at Camelot Kaps in Philadelphia.

TEACHER VOICE: How hip-hop erased these young students’ unfair, bad rap

Making it cool to be kind

Future of Learning

by  Luke O'Brien  – January 29, 2018

High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students "before it's too late," but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.
Using a stuffed animal to assist with breathing techniques, fifth-grader Vermetrice relaxes during a yoga class.

How one school is using yoga to improve outcomes for kids

Educators say unique programs are having an impact on students with disabilities

Future of Learning

by  APM Reports  – November 20, 2017

Carla Savinon, now a sophomore, works on a painting in her visual arts class last spring at Boston’s Margarita Muñiz Academy, where arts are a core component of the curriculum.

With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school

The school also features expeditionary learning, mastery-based grading, technology, the arts and community-building

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – October 4, 2017

OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

The arts and cultural sector are no stranger to budget cuts. They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this…

Higher Education

by  Kevin Quigley  and  Sara Coffey  – July 25, 2017

COLUMN: Students in violence-wracked city learn to cope using poetry

Naming your fears in verse

Higher Education

by  Andre Perry  – May 2, 2017

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Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world.

OPINION: The arts help refugees, other students to master academics

Creating a level playing field

K-12

by  Bobby Riley  and  Cheri Sterman  – May 1, 2017

High school should be more like preschool

Why secondary education is borrowing ideas from early childhood

Early Education

by  Sarah Garland  – April 7, 2017

OPINION: The case for a Bachelor of Arts — what Betsy DeVos doesn’t understand about this “Noble Pursuit”

Debunking the common wisdom

Higher Education

by  Paul Bonin-Rodriguez  – March 28, 2017

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