Ohio's Arts Education Data Project
Recognizing the vital role of the arts in students’ development and educational success, the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Ohio Arts Council, and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce collaborate on the Ohio Arts Education Data Project. Ohio is proud to be among the first few states in the nation to provide a public, online arts education data system.
Ohio’s laws pertaining to public education include the Fine Arts (defined as dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts) as part of the prescribed curriculum, with a one-credit graduation requirement.
Explore the Ohio Dashboard
The project provides a public dashboard that enables parents, educators, school administrators, and policymakers to track how arts education is being offered in Ohio schools and districts, track enrollment trends across a 5-year period, and gain insights into arts education participation at the school, district, and state levels. Review school-level, district, county, and statewide data. The interactive, color-coded dashboard displays arts access and enrollment data for Ohio’s K-12 schools as reported annually via the state’s Education Management Information System (EMIS). Data from ensuing school years will be added annually, allowing the project to show the status of arts education over time.
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About the National Arts Education Data Project
The National Arts Education Data Project was originally a partnership between the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and Quadrant Research. The nationwide project coordinates with participating state departments of education to collect and report arts education data from State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) and other state department of education data sets on an annual basis. Original funding for the project was generously provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, National Association for Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission and Little Kids Rock. Growing from five states (California, North Carolina, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Ohio), the project now has 31 states with online arts education dashboards in place.
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