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Hot Off The Press: Getting the Best High School Arts Education
It's the last in a series of Arts Education Guides for Parents, making the set complete. With this new edition for high school, we now have guides for: Pre-K through Second Grade; Third through Fifth Grade; Six through Eighth Grade; and now Ninth through Twelfth Grade. In English and Spanish, and for the earlier grade, a number of other languages.Next up? Adapting these local … [Read more...] about Hot Off The Press: Getting the Best High School Arts Education
The Things You Hear about Arts Education: When Up is Down and Down is Up
There's not one on this list that isn't true. And of course, the best part (or worst, depending on your view of things), is that many of the startlingly contradictory statements come from the same person. It's an update on a older post, let's call it version 2.0._______________________________________________________________________________ What's it like to support a … [Read more...] about The Things You Hear about Arts Education: When Up is Down and Down is Up
Arts Education and School Reform: An Unlikely Duo
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people from the arts education field say that arts ed needs to become part of school reform. And, this is not a new chorus, but a rather old one, going back at least 15 years.Granted, 15 years ago, when people spoke of school reform, they meant something along the lines of school improvement, which could mean improvement of … [Read more...] about Arts Education and School Reform: An Unlikely Duo
Real Funding for Advocacy: What Is Sorely Needed
The simple fact is that funding for arts education advocacy has been fractional. The state alliances have historically been funded on a marginal basis and local advocacy has for the most part been nascent. Underdeveloped advocacy efforts and little funding to support anything better. That's arts education in 2011. Think good ideas for an engine, but little gas in the tank.The … [Read more...] about Real Funding for Advocacy: What Is Sorely Needed