Research+on+the+arts+in+classrooms

[|champions of change.pdf]: A 1999 report sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that identifies how involvement with the arts creates opportunities for students to learn and increases academic achievement.

[|Eisner.pdf]: Elliot Eisner's response to arguments that the arts boost academic achievement.

[|Catterall Response.pdf]: Catterall's response to Eisner's critique.

[|Learning in and through the arts.pdf]: Judith M. Burton, Robert Horowitz, and Hal Abeles explore the issue of transfer - whether or not what students learn in and through participation in the arts transfers to academic achievement in other areas such as Math and English.

[|Playmaking for Girls.pdf]: Maisha T. Fisher, Susie Spear Purcell, and Rachel May explore process, product, and playmaking, particularly focusing on the tension between process and product. Playmaking For Girls (PFG) trains teaching artists to facilitate playwriting and performance workshops with incarcerated girls in regional youth detention centers and after-school workshops with middle school girls in urban public schools.

[|HEARTS.pdf]: Trinetia Respress and Ghazwan Lutfi conducted a quasi-experimental quantitative study to measure the impact of fine arts participation on the academic achievement, commitment to school, self-esteem, and likelihood of engaging in violent behavior of at risk African American middle school students. The experimental group consisted of 33 students (16 male, 17 female) who participated in HEARTS (Health Education in the Arts Refining Talented Students), an after-school violence prevention program supported by the Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services