The arts face being squeezed out of schools by a focus on a narrowing range of core subjects. Fewer students are taking arts subjects including art and design, music and drama once they cease to ...

And just as the arts can revive a school’s community, so too they can help restore our nation’s soul. That’s why the job of making arts accessible to young people starts at the top.

Michelle Schroeder, the president of the New York State Art Teachers Association and a high school animation teacher, seconds this. She says the arts allow students an opportunity to have fun ...

Concerns about graduates’ preparedness for an increasingly tech-savvy job market and the relevance of the liberal arts for an evolving workforce converged at the meeting of the Council of ...

The NEA will no longer fund many arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants for 2026 that have funded programs for underserved communities for ...

Educating Americans in the liberal arts – teaching them to write, understand history, and philosophize – was traditionally the main purpose of college. But today’s students are shunning that ...

The emails were sent to arts administrators from an address at the endowment that did not accept replies. “The N.E.A. is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects ...