Arts Education

The slight teenager stepped into the windowless recording studio. He put on oversize gold headphones and tilted his head up, exuding the confidence of a 16-year-old who knows he has the talent and drive to make it big.

Tens of thousands of American high school students each year flock to the National Mall to look up at the larger-than-life monuments to the Founding Fathers: the 554-foot Washington obelisk and the 80,000-square-foot temple to Jefferson on…

Some might have called it irreverent, and others will praise it. But in an era where students are challenging the icons of American history, none of that was lost on the Hamilton stage. Across the United States, the cast of Hamilton has…