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
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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!
Parents Are Key: Will We Ever Make Good on the Notion?
For this past year's Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, a few people were asked to write short think pieces to accompany GIA's arts education pre-conference. The following is the piece that I wrote about parent engagement:I've been hearing about the power of parents in education since I started as a teaching artist in 1985, and in 2009 you still hear it all the time, at … [Read more...] about Parents Are Key: Will We Ever Make Good on the Notion?
The Official USDOE Summary from the ESEA Arts Stakeholders Meeting
This was sent along by the USDOE just yesterday: ESEA Meeting on Arts Education Summary … [Read more...] about The Official USDOE Summary from the ESEA Arts Stakeholders Meeting