U.S. Department of Education 2009-2010 FRSS Arts in Education Surveys

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) are collaborating to conduct seven surveys on arts education in U.S. public schools during the 2009-10 school year. The surveys will be conducted through the NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), which was used to conduct previous national surveys on arts education in 1999–2000 and 1994-95.

Specifically, a survey will be conducted with:

• Elementary school principals
• Elementary music specialists
• Elementary visual arts specialists
• Elementary general classroom teachers
• Secondary school principals
• Secondary music specialists
• Secondary visual arts specialists

In order to minimize respondent burden each survey will only have three pages of questions. Both school-level surveys will be administered beginning in the fall of 2009, while the administration of the teacher-level surveys will begin in January 2010. NCES anticipates releasing initial school-level data results by January 2011 and teacher-level results by June 2011. A larger, more comprehensive report will follow the initial releases and provide combined and detailed findings for all of the surveys, including comparisons between the 1999–2000 and 2009–10.

Contact:
Peter Tice, Ph.D.
Project Officer, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)
National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences
1990 K St., NW, Suite 9033
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 502-7497 (p)
peter.tice@ed.gov
 

--Elizabeth Lasko, September 18, 2009. © MENC: The National Association for Music Education