Wolf Trap…Turnaround Arts and Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announce a national partnership to support arts-integrated learning in early childhood classrooms across the country. Through in-class services for young children, ongoing training for educators, and resource development …

PIX11, Joe Mauceri…Art programs are often the first ones cut when schools are forced to trim the budget, even though these programs have been shown to help students learn better in the core subjects like math, science, and reading. …

PEOPLE, Rose Minutaglio…Sarah Jessica Parker knows first-hand how to get kids amped up for a new school year. “We’ve seen unbelievable evidence of the difference in a child’s daily life when you bring arts into a school,” Parker tells …

Hawaii News Now, Chris Tanaka…Kalihi Kai elementary school students were given a gift Wednesday when Jack Johnson and Jake Shimabukuro performed there. And to think, they were just the warm-up act. Kalihi Kai, along with Kamaile Academy and Waianae …

Connecticut Post, Linda Conner Lambeck…Illusionist David Blaine asked Victoria Castellani, 9, what her favorite subject was, and the Hallen School fourth grader whispered “math.” It was magic to his ears. The Brooklyn-born performer, one of four acclaimed artists assigned …

NOLA.com, John Pope…Alfre Woodard, an actress with a shelf full of awards attesting to her talent, has a simple explanation for her success: Somebody showed up. That motivation brought her to Homer A. Plessy Community School, which sits behind …

CNBC, Paula Abdul…I loved my teachers at Van Nuys Junior and Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles — especially in the music department where they taught me discipline and creativity. I vividly recall many of the life lessons …

San Jose Mercury News, Rebecca Parr…Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins spent Friday at a Hayward elementary school, joining children in a staged reading, singing with the chorus, answering questions and watching students work on computer art projects as he …

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 …