Silk Road Project, Cristina Pato…Working with fellow Silk Road Ensemble member Shane Shanahan and Turnaround Arts in Des Moines proved to be one of those occasions in which you see the transformation of the kids in just one morning: …

Connecticut Post, Linda Conner Lambeck…Walking through the cavernous central hallway of the Jettie S. Tisdale School on Friday morning felt like going through the Canyon of Heroes to New York Yankee-turned-jazz guitarist Bernie Williams. Teachers cheered. Students lined up …

Connecticut Post, Linda Conner Lambeck…Architecture has taken Thom Mayne all over the world: Beijing, Zurich, Madrid, Paris and Sydney. On Monday it landed him on the East Side of Bridgeport, in one of the district’s oldest schools, Hall. From …

Des Moines Public Schools…Tony and Grammy award-winning performer John Lloyd Young spent a second day with Des Moines Public Schools, this time working with students and teachers at Cattell Elementary School. He spent two days at DMPS thanks to …

Compton Unified School District…It’s an incredible day at Turnaround Arts school King Elementary. Architect Frank Gehry and Jane Chu, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, see first hand how arts education play a role in student achievement.…

Des Moines Public Schools…Actor Kal Penn is back at Harding Middle School, and musicians Shane Shanahan and Cristina Pato of The Silk Road Ensemble are at Madison Elementary. The artists are working with students and teachers thanks to the …

Splash, Chicago Sun-Times, Chiara Milioulis…When artist Josh Groban swung through Chicago last year to support the Academy of Urban School Leadership’s Chalmers School of Excellence, the students had a profound impact on him. That’s why on March 30, Groban …

Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos…Turnaround Arts, a music education program affiliated with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, has announced the expansion of its program to 54 high-poverty schools across the country. The expansion includes the involvement of …

Des Moines Public Schools… Actor and former White House advisor Kal Penn spent Thursday at Harding Middle School, working with students and teachers thanks to the Turnaround Arts program, a White House initiative to integrate the arts into other curriculum …

Education World, Nicole Gorman… The Department of Education has approved a two-year plan that will pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Turnaround Arts program which will provide supplies and professional development training to preschool teachers around the country. …