The center for Arts Education - US Department of Education



Grantee Name: The Center for Arts Education

Grantee Project Name: Arts Assessment in Action: Student Learning for the 21st Century

Contact Person: Eva Pataki

Telephone: (212) 718-288-7144

Email: eva@

Total Four Year Funding: $1,099,500.00

Number of Schools Served: 6

Number of Students Served: 2,600

The Center for Arts Education proposes to implement, document, and rigorously evaluate the School Arts Support Initiative 2 (SASI 2) with a consortium of six Title I middle schools. Each of these schools is "arts-poor" as defined by lacking a cohesive, sequential arts education program serving all students equitably. Building on success and lessons learned from SASI 1, CAE’s team of experts will guide the consortium through a four-year process of curriculum development and capacity-building for instruction in the arts, with a focus on quality and sustainability. Through extensive professional development, cultural partnership-building, expert coaching and peer exchange, SASI 2 will transform the consortium into “arts-rich” schools that meet or exceed local, New York State and national standards in the arts.

With the support of the AEMDD, CAE will use a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative quasi-experimental research design in order to substantiate and disseminate statistically significant evidence of the impact of arts education on improving student achievement and the learning climate of struggling urban middle schools. By utilizing CAE's outstanding public information apparatus, evaluation findings and implications will be disseminated to policymakers, school and district leaders, union officials, and allies in education reform. CAE believes that SASI 2, which will exponentially advance the research findings on arts education, will assist middle schools nationwide in their efforts to raise teacher performance, and stimulate positive student outcomes through adaptation of this program design.

Anticipated outcomes include: statistically significant improvements in overall student performance, improvement in the pedagogical practice of teachers, improvement in school leadership, increased parent involvement, improvement of school environment, increased awareness of the need for and the value of arts education, and an increased number of middle schools meeting arts education standards.

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