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
Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One
I am really, really, really! pleased to bring to you one of my very favorite artists: the composer, bassist, and educator extraordinaire: Jon Deak.Jon has offered to provide a guest blog on Dewey 21C about his trip to Venezuela, as artist in residence with El Sistema, which considering all the attention it has gotten over the past couple of years, should need no introduction … [Read more...] about Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One
Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith
Here's a big welcome back to Dewey21C's regular guest blogger, my dear friend Jane Remer. What Jane has on her mind is very well thrown dart landing right smack dead center in the bull's eye of what is on everyone's mind as they read about ESEA, Race to the Top, the Common Core standards project, and dare I even say the very existence of arts education as education budgets … [Read more...] about Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith