Click here for Part Four Caracas, April 13 Another day of wonders and the unpredictable. Today, Diana Arismendi, head of El Taller de Escritura Creativa, the Center for Creative Writing, and a prominent Venezuelan composer, returns from Puerto Rico to help us organize our efforts. I need her to feel that our program of starting kids composing at a very early age will help her … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Five
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Arts Education and Social Justice
This article, The Hijacking of Arts Education, was forwarded to me by my friend Andy Wolf, who just wrote this terrific and important piece for the NY Daily News urging New York State to forgo applying to Race to the Top.The first piece, the hijacking piece, which strikes me as a sort of way out there, Joe McCarthy world view where art education is being infiltrated by … [Read more...] about Arts Education and Social Justice
Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Four
Click here for Part Three Caracas, April 12-13, 2010 This will be the start of "The Week That Was!" for us and this wonderful, colorful band of children. If I didn't know through years of composing symphonic music that creativity can indeed be given a boost in restricted, unknown and time-intensive circumstances, I would say this could not be done, even attempted. But Richard … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Four
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
STEM To STEAM: Is it Just a Lot of Hot Air?
And I am not talking about how to get the old school radiators in my office to stop all that loud banging when they heat up. (That is technically known as Steam Hammer.)There's a funny look people get on their face when they use the line: let's turn STEM to STEAM! It's a cute little smile, like they just said something really clever. It's a fine line however, between clever and … [Read more...] about STEM To STEAM: Is it Just a Lot of Hot Air?