Catherine H. Augustine

John F. Pane

Heather L. Schwartz

Jennifer Sloan McCombs

Laura Zakaras

Paco Martorell

As part of a randomized controlled trial study assessing the effect of district-run voluntary summer programs, this second report in a series looks at how summer programs affected student performance in certain categories in fall 2013.

Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

Arthur Brooks

Kevin F. McCarthy

Elizabeth H. Ondaatje

During the past decade, arts advocates have relied on an instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support of the arts. This report evaluates these arguments and asserts that a new approach is needed. This new approach offers a more comprehensive view of how the arts create private and public value, underscores the importance of the arts?' intrinsic benefits, and links the creation of benefits to arts involvement.

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts

Julia Lowell

What does it mean to cultivate demand for the arts? Why is it important and necessary to do so? What can state arts agencies and other arts and education policymakers do to make it happen? The authors set out a framework for thinking about supply and demand in the arts and identify the roles that different factors, particularly arts learning, play in increasing demand for the arts.

Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy

Cultivating Demand for the Arts

Laura Zakaras

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