by Kimberly L. Hyatt, President & CEO | Mar 5, 2018 | Education, Health
Americans of a certain age spend an estimated $1.3 billion annually on brain training games such as Lumosity as we grasp for anything that might slow the changes that occur as our brains get older. We invest time and money even though there is no real research to...
by Kimberly L. Hyatt, President & CEO | Feb 5, 2018 | Education, News
Imagine a world where every weekend parents and grandparents spend hours cheering on a child’s efforts in dance, music, theatre or the visual arts. Imagine a world where a family’s excitement over a child’s A in an arts class mirrors that of an A in math or their...
by Kimberly L. Hyatt, President & CEO | Dec 4, 2017 | Education, News
Policies at the district, state and federal levels all speak to the critical importance of quality arts education if we have any hope of preparing students to succeed in school and in life. What the children who attend Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) need now is a...
by Kimberly L. Hyatt, President & CEO | Nov 6, 2017 | Education
Actions have consequences. This truth underlay the “tough on crime” stance I long held toward youth involved in the criminal justice system. But once I saw the difference arts education could make in their lives through our programming at the Cathedral Arts Project, I...
by Kimberly L. Hyatt, President & CEO | Aug 18, 2017 | Education, News
As 129,000 Duval County Public Schools students embark upon a new school year, laments about the poor quality of public education ring out as familiar as ever. Despite business interests and others funding countless reform efforts since the 1983 publication of...
