Advocacy Resources

Do you need to build a case for supporting Arts in your schools?  There is plenty of evidence and some great online resources to help.

What Students Should Know and Be able to Do in the Arts  

Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning (PDF)

Educating for the Workplace through the Arts
Excerpts from BusinessWeek, October 28, 1996 issue

Arts Advocacy Kit (PDF)

Arts Education Partnership 
Visit the website and click on Publications for a listing of important published research studies. Such as: 

• Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement (PDF)
• Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development. (PDF)
• Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning (PDF)
• Important 2008 study of public perceptions about the value of the arts in education (DOC)

Americans for the Arts
The nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

MENC – The National Organization for Music Education

NAEA – National Art Education Association

Support Music – Building a Case for the Arts
You check what info you need and they provide factoids

Kentucky Advocacy Resources:

Arts Kentucky – Kentucky arts advocacy organization
From this website you can use CapWiz to easily generate emails and letters to your legislators (by entering your zip code, it tells you who your legilators are in KY and US Gov).

Kentucky Arts Council Publications
Look for 2005 Status of Arts Education in Kentucky Public Schools 

Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education
Click on Advocacy for some great links and information