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| Advocacy Center for Children’s
Educational Success with Standards |
The ACCESS Project is a national initiative that
seeks to strengthen the links between school finance litigation,
public engagement, and the standards-based reform movement. ACCESS-which
stands for Advocacy Center for Children's Educational Success with
Standards-is working to create a national network of advocates,
attorneys, researchers, educators, and parents committed to reforms
in education and education finance. The key objectives of the ACCESS
Project are to: (a) Fully understand through research and analysis
how litigation and public engagement techniques can be linked to
provide all children access to an adequate education. (b) Develop
specific remedies and models for implementing court decisions in
fiscal equity and education adequacy litigations across the country.
(c) Create a nationwide network of advocates, attorneys, researchers,
educators, and parents to promote opportunities for adequate education
for all children.
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| Alliance for
Young Artists and Writers |
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have provided an
avenue for young artists and writers, in grades 7–12, to receive
recognition and rewards for their creative achievements since 1923.
By acknowledging the visions and voices of emerging artists and writers,
The Awards have helped nurture eight decades of promising talent by
providing recognition, cash awards and college scholarships. Each
year, 250,000 works of art and writing are submitted to The Scholastic
Art & Writing Awards. Approximately 50,000 students across the
United States receive regional awards and 1,100 are selected as national
award-winners.
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| American Alliance for
Theatre & Education |
The mission of American Alliance for Theatre and Education
is to promote standards of excellence in theatre and theatre education.
We achieve this mission by disseminating quality practices in theatre
and theatre education, connecting artists, educators, researchers
and scholars with each other, and by providing opportunities for our
membership to learn, exchange, expand and diversify their work, the
audience and their perspectives.
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| American Arts Alliance |
A nationwide consortium of nonprofit performing, presenting
and exhibiting arts organizations. The mission of the Alliance is
to be the principal advocate for America's professional nonprofit
arts organizations and their publics in representing arts interests
and advancing arts support before Congress and other branches of the
federal government. To achieve this mission, the Alliance informs
legislators and policy makers of the vital role of the arts in American
society, and advocates the development of national policies which
recognize, enhance and foster the contributions that the arts make
to America.
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| American Association of Museums |
Founded in 1906, the American Association of Museums
(AAM) is dedicated to promoting excellence within the museum community.
Through advocacy, professional education, information exchange, accreditation,
and guidance on current professional standards of performance, AAM
assists museum staff, boards, and volunteers across the country to
better serve the public. AAM is the only organization representing
the entire scope of museums and professionals and nonpaid staff who
work for and with museums. AAM currently represents more than 16,000
members--11,500 individual museum professionals and volunteers, 3,100
institutions, and 1,700 corporate members. Individual members span
the range of occupations in museums, including directors, curators,
registrars, educators, exhibit designers, public relations officers,
development officers, security managers, trustees, and volunteers.
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| American Composers Forum |
The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting
composers and developing new markets for their music. Through granting,
commissioning, and performance programs, we provide composers at all
stages of their careers with valuable resources for professional and
artistic development. By linking communities with composers and performers,
the Forum fosters a demand for new music, enriches communities and
helps develop the next generation of composers, musicians and music
patrons.
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| American Music Conference |
The American Music Conference is a national non-profit
educational association founded in 1947. AMC is dedicated to promoting
the importance of music, music-making and music education to the general
public. AMC's goal is to build credibility for music and music education,
especially at an early age, and to expand that portion of the population
that enjoys and makes its own music.
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| American
Society for Artists, Composers & Publishers (ASCAP) |
ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing
and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances
of their copyrighted works. ASCAP's licensees encompass all who want
to perform copyrighted music publicly. ASCAP makes giving and obtaining
permission to perform music simple for both creators and users of
music. ASCAP is a membership association of more than 135,000 U.S.
composers, songwriters and publishers of every kind of music and hundreds
of thousands worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization
created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers,
with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.
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| American Symphony Orchestra
League |
The American Symphony Orchestra League provides leadership
and service to American orchestras while communicating to the public
the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform.
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| Americans for the
Arts |
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit
organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 40-year record
of objective arts industry research, we are dedicated to representing
and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every
American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. |
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| Arts
Education Partnership |
The AEP (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership)
is a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic
and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential
role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and
in the improvement of America's schools. The Partnership includes
over 140 organizations that are national in scope and impact. It also
includes state and local partnerships focused on influencing education
policies and practices to promote quality arts education. Partnership
organizations affirm the central role of imagination, creativity and
the arts in culture and society; the power of the arts to enliven
and transform education and schools; and collective action through
partnerships as the means to place the arts at the center of learning.
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| ArtsEdge |
ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the
center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses
of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about
the arts.
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| ArtsEdNet |
A program of the The J. Paul Getty Trust, ArtsEdNet
provides a variety of resources and services for K-12 teachers.
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| ArtsVision |
Artsvision® is North America's leader in arts and
arts education planning, design, and program implementation. Dedicated
to excellence in the presentation of arts for diverse communities
across the continent, Artsvision — based in Rhinebeck, New York,
and Austin, Texas — serves music, theater and dance providers,
universities and schools systems, government agencies, foundations
and cultural institutions. From boardroom to classroom, from stage
to internet, from CNN to The New York Times to Art in America, Artsvision
has been recognized as a vital force in connecting the lives of artist,
student, teacher, parent, and audience.
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| Association
for the Advancement of Arts Education |
Advancement of Arts Education teaches teachers how to
use the arts to teach social studies, science, math and language arts!
It's called arts integration-incorporating the arts into curriculum-and
you've come to the right place to learn more about the tri-state's
pioneers in this teaching method.
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| Association of Arts
Administration Educators |
The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE)
is an international organization incorporated as a nonprofit institution
within the United States. Its mission is to represent college and
university graduate and undergraduate programs in arts administration,
encompassing training in the management of visual, performing, literary,
media, cultural and arts service organizations. Founded in 1975, the
AAAE was created to provide a forum for communication among its members
and advocate formal training and high standards of education for arts
administrators. The Association, moreover, encourages its members
to pursue, publish, present and disseminate research in arts management
and administration to strengthen the understanding of arts management
issues in the academic and professional fields.
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| Association of Performing
Arts Presenters |
For more than 40 years, the Association of Performing
Arts Presenters has been bringing the performing arts community together.
Whether face to face at the Annual Members Conference and continuing
education courses, or through the many connections found in the largest
network of arts professionals in the industry.
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| Center
for Arts Education |
Center for Arts Education is a not-for-profit organization
committed to restoring and sustaining arts education as an essential
part of every child's education in the New York City public schools.
We identify, fund and support exemplary partnerships and programs
that demonstrate how the arts contribute to learning and student achievement.
We are dedicated to influencing educational and fiscal policies that
will ultimately result in the restoration of arts education in all
of our city's public schools.
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| Chamber Music America |
The mission of Chamber Music America is to promote artistic
excellence and economic stability within the profession, and to ensure
that chamber music, in its broadest sense, is a vital part of American
life.
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| College Art Association |
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association promotes
excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism
of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching
and practices of art.
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| Cultural Education Collaborative |
Because of the Charlotte community's growing awareness
of the importance of cultural education, the CEC was created as a
funded partner of the Arts & Science Council in 1997 to re-grant,
coordinate and support cultural education programming in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
area. Together the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the local Arts &
Science Council, the CEC and the 29 arts, science and history/heritage
organizations known as the Cultural Affiliates provide a diverse array
of culturally infused learning opportunities for CMS students and
their teachers.
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| Dance USA |
Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional
dance, seeks to advance the art form of dance by addressing the needs,
concerns, and interests of professional dance. To fulfill this mission,
Dance/USA offers a variety of programs for its membership and the
dance field, as well as works with organizations within and outside
the arts field with whom common goals are shared.
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| Education at the Met |
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department offers
an innovative network of programs designed to help further music and
arts education in schools and communities across the world. By working
directly with teachers, parents and young people we have created programs
that make opera accessible and exciting to people of all ages and
backgrounds.
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| Educational theatre
Association |
Since its beginning in 1929 under the name National
Thespians, the Educational Theatre Association has worked to promote
and strengthen school theatre by recognizing and rewarding excellence.
We strive, alongside educators, advocates and artists to make theatre
an instrument of lifelong learning. The Association also serves as
the eyes, ears and voice of the school theatre community, advocating
a stronger role for theatre education in the curriculum.
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| Foundation Center, The |
We are a professional association for theatre educators
and an honor society for their students. Together, the Educational
Theatre Association and its student division, the International Thespian
Society, have been helping build strong school theatre programs for
more than seventy years.
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| Grantmakers
in the Arts |
Grantmakers in the Arts is a nonprofit membership organization
comprised of private foundations, family foundations, community foundations,
corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations
that make arts grants. GIA welcomes public sector grantmakers as affiliate
members. Over 850 individuals - both trustee and staff - participate
in GIA, representing over 250 organizations. GIA aims to: Strengthen
the field of private sector arts grantmaking by improving communication,
information exchange, and peer learning within the field as a whole;
Increase the presence of arts philanthropy within the broader foundation
and policy making communities, thereby promoting more meaningful support
of arts and culture; Support individual arts grantmakers in increasing
their effectiveness and their capacity to meet their objectives.
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| International Association of Jazz
Educators |
IAJE has members in all fifty of the United States in
addition to 30 countries world wide. IAJE promotes the appreciation
of jazz and its artistic performance, helps organize jazz curricula
in schools, fosters the appreciation of jazz principles at all levels
of education, and cooperates with organizations dedicated to the development
of musical culture. The International Association of Jazz Educators
is an MENC associated organization.
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