Arts education

Music education sets up low-income youth for success

September 12, 2024

A staggering 97% of music students with Harmony Project graduate high school, and close to 80% go on to college. What's the secret?

Zaidee Stavely

How puppets can help kids learn to make believe

July 11, 2024

Children's Fairyland in Oakland is using puppets to help kids practice playing make believe, after teachers noticed a lack of imaginative play after the pandemic.

Zaidee Stavely

Puppetry is far more than child's play for young learners in Oakland

July 3, 2024

Coming out of the pandemic, many children are struggling with imaginative play and make believe, experts say.

Karen D'Souza

How music education sharpens the brain, tunes us up for life

June 24, 2024

Early music experiences may impart a lifelong neuroplasticity that boosts cognition, experts say.

Karen D'Souza

Arts education: Will misuse of funds undermine the Proposition 28 rollout?

June 3, 2024

A growing group of arts teachers and others are raising concerns over how the money is being spent by districts.

Karen D'Souza

Mariachi program teaches history and culture as well as music

May 13, 2024

Music education can help children find their voice, experts say, as well as connect them to their community.

Karen D'Souza

LA arts education group fights falling literacy rates through poetry

April 15, 2024

Spoken word performance can help inspire students to love language, some experts say, finding joy in literacy.

Karen D'Souza

Expanding arts education requires accountability and team effort, panel says 

March 22, 2024

An EdSource panel discussed ways various stakeholders can come together to support arts education amid confusion about Proposition 28.

Mallika Seshadri

Commentary

Marching band can change your college experience

March 18, 2024

Leadership, accountability, time management, confidence and patience are all skills that members of a marching band gain.

Ashley Bolter

Can arts education help children heal from trauma?

March 12, 2024

Arts and music can nurture a visceral feeling of belonging that can help combat the isolation that often follows a tragic event, experts say.

Karen D'Souza

Commentary

California must invest in professional learning for arts teachers

March 4, 2024

Educators have a wide range of training and development needs that must be met if the state is to fulfill the promise of Proposition 28.

Letty Kraus and Patti Saraniero

Does California need teacher residencies for arts educators?

March 4, 2024

Arts education advocates hope to create more alternate pathways for teachers at the TK-12 level.

Karen D'Souza

Turning around a high-needs Los Angeles school with the arts

March 1, 2024

Principal Marcos Hernandez sees the arts as a path to healing children from the scars left by grinding poverty in his LAUSD school.

Karen D'Souza

Arts education takes flight outdoors in Mariposa County

February 15, 2024

Teachers and students tap into a native tradition in which art and nature have always been inextricably linked.

Karen D'Souza

Gov. Newsom’s budget proposal calls for expanding arts ed pathway

January 29, 2024

The proposal aims to help working artists become arts teachers in elementary schools.

Karen D'Souza