Last week I learned of the death of the book illustrator, John Schoenherr. My favorite among his work was his partnership with Jane Yolen on the Caldecott Award Winning children's book Owl Moon. For my money, the Caldecott Award is a real measure of quality. Of course there are others like Newbery, Geisel, etc. And, with a five-year old daughter, I spend time a lot … [Read more...] about John Schoenherr, Children’s Book Ilustrator, RIP
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Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Click here for Part Two Caracas, April 9-10, 2010 The excitement builds. Also the nerves. Have you ever noticed how, when you travel to a completely new environment, all emotions are magnified? The joys are expansive, the fears are bottomless, each event rings clear, vibrates with color. I feel I should go to bed wearing dark sunglasses! And yet, there is a penetration to … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Guest Blogger, Jon Deak, Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Two
Click here for Part One Caracas, April 8, 2010 We're here! It seems impossible to describe all the events and feelings of just the first twenty-four hours of our trip to Venezuela, to experience and interact with El Sistema. I've been so long in awe of this program which is revolutionizing this country and the musical world in the best possible way--and now here we are, in its … [Read more...] about Guest Blogger, Jon Deak, Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Two
Better for Some, Worse for Others: PTA Funding and Inequities in Arts Education
Here's a piece from the Village Voice about the gross inequities in education and arts education associated with the varying abilities of parents to raise funds for their child's public school.When school systems and state departments of education fail to establish instructional standards that include required levels of minimum instruction and/or fail to enforce such required … [Read more...] about Better for Some, Worse for Others: PTA Funding and Inequities in Arts Education
The Lost Paragraphs from Arne Duncan’s Arts Education Speech at AEP
Well, by lost, I mean if I could wave a magic wand, this is what he would have added...Let me start from the beginning. As most of you know, last Friday at the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) Forum held in DC, both Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education and Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts gave speeches on arts education.If you didn't know, humm, … [Read more...] about The Lost Paragraphs from Arne Duncan’s Arts Education Speech at AEP