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The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS), a partnership of organizations and states leading the revision of the 1994 National Standards for Arts Education, has released a narrative framework that details the rationale, goals, and strategy of the new National Standards for Arts Education.

The National Core Arts Standards: A Conceptual Framework for Arts Learningis available online. Five arts discipline teams are currently writing the standards based on the framework. NCCAS’s current timeline calls for the first public look at the new standards in June 2013.

The College Board, in partnership with the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS), has released two new research reports designed to support the revision of the National Arts Education Standards. 

The International Arts Education Standards: A Survey of the Arts Education Standards and Practices of Fifteen Countries and Regions outlines existing international standards and benchmarks for arts education in more than a dozen of the world’s most educationally advanced countries. The second report is entitled Arts Education Standards and 21st Century Skills: An analysis of the relationship between the 1994 National Standards for Arts Education and the 21st Century Skills Map in the Arts. Read the full story