The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers provides inspiration and validation for the next generation of artists and writers.

Educators at the Bluffview Montessori School in Minnesota are using an old medium—radio—to teach modern day lessons about working and thinking creatively. Rob Capriccioso reports on this and other audio-focused programs that are gaining steam across the country.

Art and Education School funding cuts often hit arts particularly hard
-- but a new book warns that arts are not just a luxury to jettison when
times get tough. Putting the Arts in the Picture finds that integrating
arts into mainstream curriculum has quantifiable cognitive and academic
benefits. A study of 23 arts-integrated schools in Chicago showed test
scores rising up to two times faster there than in demographically
comparable schools.

In election years, a common lament is that young people aren't engaged by politics. But some educators are finding creative ways to get kids thinking, through the art and humor of political cartooning. Rob Capriccioso reports.

For the young photographers in Lynne Bernay-Roman's classes, image-making becomes an inward voyage of discovery?one their teachers say helps them be more successful in school. Letitia Monaco looks at how Bernay-Roman's Finding Focus Through Photography curriculum is working in some Palm Beach County schools.

Rap-inspired math, spelling and science lessons are fast becoming music to the ears of kids in both urban and suburban settings. Superheroes like Grammar Man and CDs like De-U Records' "Multiplication Hip-Hop" aim to be the Schoolhouse Rock for a new generation. Join Rob Capriccioso as he takes a look behind the music.

At 70, artist Lloyd Kleine Harvey is hard at work helping young children tap into their artistic side. His work is based on the premise that there is a deep connection between creativity and the ability to solve problems without violence. Loriee Evans reports on Harvey's Peace Project.

By bringing artworks and artists into elementary schools, the Chicago-based group Art Encounter teaches kids to respond to visual art in a lively way that encourages their own creativity. Victor M. Cassidy takes a close look at how it works.

A gleaming new facility caps three decades of success for the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, an intensive program for high school students pursuing dreams of achievement in the arts. Connect for Kids' Althea Izawa-Hayden reports on this latest move for a long-running success story in arts education.

This website is dedicated to working with schools, communities and the private and public sectors to make arts an integral part of youth education.