In this international collaborative case study, American and Italian authors applied a hypothetical philanthropic case scenario to the recent graduation of the first student with nonverbal autism at the University of Central Italy in order to examine the potential impact a private donation would have on various institutional constituents. A series…

This article reconsiders the association between childhood arts participation and cognitive and developmental outcomes. Using data from a large, nationally representative sample with extensive covariates, we employ propensity score weighting to adjust comparisons of children who do and do not participate in arts education (music and performing…