Lesley University is now affiliated with the Arts Education Partnership, an organization in Washington, D.C., that provides information and communication about national, state, and local issues and activities in arts education. AEP partners with arts and education agencies, state departments of education, state and national arts agencies, and arts and education collaboratives. Major projects include:
- commissioning and disseminating research about arts and education issues
- maintaining and linking databases on state policies for arts education
- convening national forums around current themes and issues in the field of arts education
- What School Leaders Can Do To Increase Arts Education
- Learning Partnerships: Improving Learning in Schools with Arts Partners in the Community
- Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
- Making a Case for the Arts: How and Why the Arts are Critical to Student Achievement and Better Schools
- Visions of the Future: Education in the Arts
