Arts for Academic Achievement: Case Study Cross-Case Analysis

The overall goal for the Arts for Academic Achievement: The Annenberg Challenge in Minneapolis project (AAA) seeks to change the ways in which teachers teach and students learn in order to increase student achievement. In order to obtain a more detailed view of the activities that are occurring in the schools involved in AAA, the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota selected six schools, out of the 43 participating schools, as case study sites in order to study the process more fully. The schools selected as case sites include three elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools. CAREI has been engaged with the members of the AAA teams at each of the six schools for the past two years, 1998-2000.