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The National Endowment for the Arts

ArtsEdge: National Arts Education Information Network

The Arts Endowment wants to help those involved in arts education organize and share their knowledge with each other and with others outside the arts. The Arts Endowment, together with the U.S. Department of Education, is supporting the development of a national arts and education information network called ArtsEdge. This concept was supported by the findings of an Endowment-supported feasibility study and the recommendations of the National Arts Education Partnership Working Group (a national task force) which called for a "proactive national system for gathering and disseminating information resources." Computer-based and interactive, the network is being developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to:

connect people to people and to information (through interactive technologies such as electronic mail, on-line forums and conferences, and access to multi-media resources);
build a computerized database about promising arts education programs and practices; and
join with other networks in the arts and in education.

Now in its pilot phase, the network has begun to develop a critical mass of information and users. More than 20,000 people visit its home page every week to see new content on educational reform, curricula and promising programs and practices, and new research. The content is organized by useful categories such as community connections, resources for students, and a unique Curriculum Studio for the development of new curricula in the arts. ArtsEdge is available via the World Wide Web at <http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org>.

Scott D. Stoner
ArtsEdge: National Arts and Education Information Network
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC 20566-0001
(202) 416-8871
e-mail: stoner@artsedge.kennedy-center.org
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