Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: September 29, 2011 “A Paradox, A Paradox, a Most Ingenious Paradox” (Pirates of Penzance/Gilbert and Sullivan), The Common Core of (Voluntary) State Standards and the Untamable Core of the American Class System. The 21st Century is young, but it’s clearly becoming a paradox. The now developing Common Core meticulously charts the paths and spirals … [Read more...] about Guest Blog, Jane Remer: A Paradox, A Paradox, A Most Ingenious Paradox –The Common Core of State Standards and The Untamable Core of the American Class System
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Is A Liberal Arts Education Dead Meat?
There are a lot of folks who are taking aim at the liberal arts. Lately, there's been quite a lot of attention paid to a recent speech by Bill Gates at the National Governors Association, where he questioned funding liberal arts programs because the area did not produce enough jobs.For me, this is just a stone's throw form the sort of thinking that relegates the arts to the … [Read more...] about Is A Liberal Arts Education Dead Meat?
A Living Mural At McKinley Middle School: Sustaining the Arts Across Years
Classes Come and Go, But the Mural Grows and Grows, by Fernanda Santos, The New York Times, May 18th, 2011The mural occupies the walls and steel doors along two floors of a middle school in Brooklyn. If turned into pavement, it would extend more than two city blocks.It's a terrific story about a terrific school that I know well. IS259 in Brooklyn was a long-term partner school … [Read more...] about A Living Mural At McKinley Middle School: Sustaining the Arts Across Years
To Turn Her Middle School Around, A Principal Invests in the Arts
There's probably not a ton of Artsjournal.com readers that read GothamSchools.org.Nevertheless, it is the go-to web site for news about New York City Public Schools, and its reach continues to grow nationwide.And, I would say that, even if they hadn't written such a terrific feature on how the arts can be part of improving a low performing school.And, damn, I would have to say … [Read more...] about To Turn Her Middle School Around, A Principal Invests in the Arts
The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System: Part Two
In July 2009, I posted what is now the first installment of a multi-part piece: POV: The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System.Essentially, I was sharing with the readers of Dewey21C, an article that had been published in the New York Teacher.Today, I received a sad follow-up, directly from Linda Starkweather:Richard, You were kind enough to share my POV … [Read more...] about The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System: Part Two