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Increasing Arts Demand Through Better Arts Learning

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The key to increasing demand for the arts may well lie in reversing the 30-year-long downtrend in arts learning both in and out of school. A number of cities have been tackling that challenge by using “coordinated approaches” that seek to have schools and other providers join forces in a sustained effort to expand access to and quality of arts learning. This “Knowledge in Brief” describes recent Wallace-commissioned research on such coordinated efforts in six sites and summarizes the policy implications those efforts have begun to yield.

Published: June 2009, 4 pages

Publishing Organization: The Wallace Foundation

Document Type: Knowledge in Brief

Document Format: PDF

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