Jane Remer’s Cliff Notes: Problem: The Arts Are Dwindling in Our Schools. Especially opera. Solution: The Metropolitan Opera to the Rescue??? “Here I go again I hear those trumpets blow again All aglow again Taking a chance on love” ---Ethel Waters singing in the great movie, Cabin in the Sky I am a passionate opera/music theater fan. I go to hear and see … [Read more...] about Guest Blog, Jane Remer: The Metropolitan Opera to the Arts Ed Rescue?????
The Nation’s Report Card for Reading and Math: Will Dismal Results Bring More of the Same (higher stakes testing)?
As Igor Stravinsky once said, good composers borrow; great composers steal. So, instead of writing my own setting of the stage, let me steal from my fine colleague and friend at Common Core, Lynne Munson: I challenge anyone to think of a nation that works as hard as we do to find silver linings in its educational failures. On Tuesday morning NAEP reported that, in the course … [Read more...] about The Nation’s Report Card for Reading and Math: Will Dismal Results Bring More of the Same (higher stakes testing)?
Arts Education: Too Much and Not Enough
One of the things I have been thinking quite a lot about lately, besides having no power at home for the third time since July (four straight days this time), currently resulting from Saturday's somewhat bizarre snow storm, is the quite odd dichotomy between my work in K-12 and my work today in higher education. In K-12 it was so often an issue of shoehorning arts education … [Read more...] about Arts Education: Too Much and Not Enough
People You Should Know: Laurie Lock–Music and Arts Education Advocate
A tribute is in order, I strongly believe, because I know few people who have been such fierce, honest, and strategic advocates for music and arts education as is Laurie Lock. You see, Laurie, after 11 years of directing programs and policy at VH1 Save The Music Foundation, is stepping down to care for her daughter full-time. Of course, Laurie has had great colleagues at … [Read more...] about People You Should Know: Laurie Lock–Music and Arts Education Advocate
GIA Conference D3: Final Thoughts (Arts Education IS Social Justice)
GIA Conference D3/Wrap Up While this will be my final post as one of the three official conference bloggers, I have no doubt that so very much of what I encountered idea-wise will infiltrate not only my blogging on Dewey21C, but also my work for quite some time. That statement should tell you a lot about how I experienced the three days. My posts have been quite linear … [Read more...] about GIA Conference D3: Final Thoughts (Arts Education IS Social Justice)