Archives for May 2009

As a follow-up to Jane Remer's piece yesterday, as well as the Arts Education Bill of Rights I posted a few weeks ago, here is another piece of the puzzle we're putting together at The Center for Arts Education.It is a campaign to restore dedicated funding for arts education in the New York City public schools. When Jane wrote about Project Arts yesterday, that is the dedicated … [Read more...] about Changing Education Policy: A Campaign and Organizing Tool

We have known for a long time that the second or third class status of the arts as general education in our public schools would probably never change until some powerful people at the national, state and local level are inspired to declare them essential as a matter of policy.  Ultimately, that policy must be expressed and rigorously enforced through legislation that … [Read more...] about Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: In The Absence of Policy, Wave Goodbye to the Arts as Education

One day later, if you haven't already heard about Rocco Landesman being nominated as the next chair of the Arts Endowment, you must be on life support, in the witness protection program, or not interested.You're going to read a lot about Landesman: there will be the profiles, conjecture as to the direction he will take, and of course, all sorts of exhortations on the directions … [Read more...] about People You Should Know: Sarah Cunningham

A couple of months ago, a grim picture for schools was painted by the Schools Chancellor. Then there was the stimulus package, with a central focus on protecting jobs of teachers. Then there was a budget offered by the Mayor which projected that there would be no teacher layoffs and that the NYCDOE was being protected to a much greater degree than other agencies. Predicting New … [Read more...] about A Memo from the NYC Schools Chancellor to School Principals

It always amazes me how many people in the arts education community don't know David Perkins. Perhaps it's because he isn't an arts guy, per se, but rather received his Ph.D from MIT in mathematics and artificial intelligence. Perhaps it's the wide range of his work. There are many other Project Zero faculty who are better known, particularly in the arts education community, … [Read more...] about People You Should Know: David Perkins