The White Papers: New Release!

“Advocacy White Papers for Art Education” are a collection of 14 essays written in response to the NAEA report, Learning in a Visual Age: The Critical Importance of Visual Arts Education. These essays communicate the value of visual arts education in a constantly changing educational environment and demonstrate why visual arts education is important for meeting each student’s educational needs. We urge you to share the White Papers for Art Education with colleagues, policy makers, supervisors and administrators, preservice art educators, and parents.

Each of the five sections of the collection of essays will be released separately. Please see the entire table of contents below.

Introduction
(Enid Zimmerman)

Section I: What High-Quality Art Education Provides
(Kerry Freedman and Pat Stuhr; Jerome Hausman, James Haywood Rolling)

Section II: How High-Quality Arts Education Can Prepare Students for the Future
(Karen Keifer-Boyd; Mary Stokrocki; Brent Wilson)

Section III: What Excellent Visual Arts Teaching Looks Like
(Lynn Beudert; Judith Burton; Renee Sandell)

Section IV: How to Infuse the Arts into Learning Environments
(Kit Grauer; Peter London; Enid Zimmerman)

Section V: Ensuring Excellent Visual Arts Education for Every Student
(Susan Gabbard and Barbara Laws; Melody Milbrandt)