Archives for September 2008

I hope that everyone will read about Don Rosenberg, the long-term, deeply respected music critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, being reassigned so that he will no longer be reviewing The Cleveland Orchestra.The music journalism perspective has been covered very well, very quickly and if you haven't taken a look, you can find it on the pages of artsjournal.com.  However, … [Read more...] about Feel The Chill: Don Rosenberg’s Reassignment

Eduwonkette. She's Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Diane Ravitch, and Edward Murrow all rolled into one. She's absolutely brilliant as she manages to remain cheeky and friendly, while taking on many of the specious claims connected to testing, accountability, and the powerful propaganda machines claiming great success as a result of test score obsessed reforms.The more I read her … [Read more...] about The Babe Ruth of Education Blogs

You hear it all the time, that schools should be accountable same as the workplace. Merit pay, determined by performance evaluations, rewards high performing employees and creates a highly competitive, successful workplace. Conversely, workers that do poorly as measured by their employee evaluations will be weeded out. It all works for the good of the company and its profit … [Read more...] about Does your workplace performance evaluation really translate to schools?

Many people know Martin Bookspan, the long-term host of Live from Lincoln Center on PBS who retired in 2006. For those of you around long enough, you may even know Martin from his tenure at ASCAP.Janet Bookspan was Martin's wife and I remember her today in this blog because she was one of the first people to prepare artists to work in the community and schools. Essentially, … [Read more...] about Remembering Janet Bookspan

With city, county, and state tax rolls down, and expenses rising, we're probably looking at the scenario of proposed cuts to arts education budget lines. The following email came my way yesterday from Big Thought of Dallas. It's a great example, from a great organization, of rolling up your sleeves to mobilize constituents against budget cuts to arts education.Email from Big … [Read more...] about Big Thought of Dallas Fights for Arts Budget