TCG Bulletin
July 2008, Volume 31, Issue 7
ARTS EDUCATION
Two Arts Education Reports Available
Last year, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
the Center for Education Policy at SRI International issued a report
on the state of arts education in California. The report, An
Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California, revealed that
a large majority of California schools fail to meet state goals
for arts education—that is, they fail to offer a standards-based
course of study in dance, music, visual arts and theatre. The report
also identified key barriers to arts education, including inadequate
and unstable funding, insufficient instructional time and limited
teacher capacity in the arts.
To identify solutions to overcome these obstacles to arts education,
two additional studies were launched that examine these barriers
in greater depth and discuss implications for policy and practice.
Two follow-up reports are now available:
- An Unfinished Canvas: Allocating Funding and Instructional Time for Elementary Arts Education documents the resources allocated to arts education in elementary schools in other states and draws comparisons with California.
- An Unfinished Canvas: Teacher Preparation, Instructional Delivery, and Professional Development in the Arts documents the scarcity of arts teachers in California elementary schools and describes the limited training and support for classroom teachers to teach to the arts standards.
Action: The full reports are available at the Center for Education Policy website.
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