Studies by the U.S. Departmen of Justice demonstrate increased pre-social behaviro amoung youth invovled with arts programs.

Ten Reasons to Support the Arts - 2017 update

This Arts Facts one pager provides statistics in support of Creativity as on of teh top three personality traiits most importat to career success.

This Arts Facts one pager provide data to support the connections between high invovlement in the arts learning and general academic success.

The Arts Fact one pager show the decline of arts educatio in underserved populations.

The Arts Facts one pager presents data suggesting students who participate in the arts, both in school and after school, demonstrate improved academic performance and lower dropout rates.

This report outlines the successes of the San Francisco Youth Symphony's programming and highlights several statistics from their second phase. 

Youth in social circus programs across the US are making big leaps in the skills they need to lead productive lives, according to a recently completed study commissioned by the American Youth Circus Organization (AYCO) and conducted by the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. The study found that circus arts has a positive impact on the Social and Emotional Learning outcomes of youth at risk. 

"Career skills are increasingly regarded as a crucial element of higher education, and researchers have noted the importance of such skills in assuring successful post-college career outcomes. For example, students who report using schools’ career resources are less likely to work in unskilled occupations after graduation (Arum & Roksa, 2014). Reflecting this topic’s importance, the module was selected and appended to the core SNAAP questionnaire by 50 out of 53 (94%) of the participating institutions. Over 30,000 arts alumni of all ages with undergraduate or graduate

The Educator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help educators and students apply the framework in curriculum development, faculty/student critique and review, planning community-based projects, assessing Arts for Change work using criteria aligned with the values of community-engaged scholarship, and more.  Aesthetic Perspectives aims to enhance understanding and evaluation of creative work at the intersection of arts and community/civic engagement,