Kids involved in community-based arts programs exhibit an intensity of certain characteristics including motivation, persistence, critical analysis, and planning. This finding and others from researcher Shirley Brice Heath are explored in an article by journalist Susan Kellam.

Training in music and arts should be considered as important for kids as cognitive development asserts sociologist Karen Pittman. Learn more in this article from journalist Susan Kellam.

This book is for people whose passion is teaching arts to children, and for the administrators, teachers, policy makers and parents who support them. Power in Practice chronicles the experiences of 10 Philadelphia-area arts organizations as they tested new approaches to arts education for children. Read the Acrobat version of the text, or obtain a free copy through the Communications Office of The Pew Charitable Trusts at 215-575-4800.

Harvard's Project Zero investigates the learning processes in children, adults, and organizations, with a special emphasis on the arts. Learn about their on-going work, including that of Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences.

The National Endowment for the Arts offers an online resource of federal funding available for arts initiatives through national, state and local funding programs.