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Archives for February 2010
A Rapidly Growing Concern about Arts Education at the USDOE
The president's budget no longer contains arts education as a discrete item, as has been the practice for a number of years. Instead, presumably, arts education is rolled into total USDOE spending--the budget specifics to be determined administratively at the USDOE.For some, it's a non-issue: this is the way the National Endowment for the Arts has gone about it for years. For … [Read more...] about A Rapidly Growing Concern about Arts Education at the USDOE
News Out of LAUSD: Potential Education Game Changer
Education reform is a big churn. Trends come and trends go. Perhaps the best read on this, if you are so inclined, is Diane Ravitch's book, Left Behind, A Century of Battles Over School Reform.Lately, the big trends have been about the infusion of forces and ideas outside of educational practice into schools. It's charters, free market, value added assessment, merit pay, … [Read more...] about News Out of LAUSD: Potential Education Game Changer
The Outsourcing of Arts Education
A good many of you must have read the article in yesterday's Los Angeles Times that looked at a Burbank parochial school that had chosen to let go of licensed theater faculty in favor of bringing in actors to teach theater.Facing enrollment drop, Burbank Catholic school gets creative in staffing theater programBy outsourcing teaching positions to professional actors, Providence … [Read more...] about The Outsourcing of Arts Education
If There’s Only One Book to Read on K-12 Education, Read This One!
All the time, I run into people in the arts field who ask me to explain exactly what the hell is going on with K-12 education. Between vouchers, choice, turnaround, merit pay, alternative certification, race to the top, race to the bottom, AYP, value-added assessment, process-driven goals, backwards-mapped curriculum, and more, trying to get a handle on what all this means can … [Read more...] about If There’s Only One Book to Read on K-12 Education, Read This One!