In today's New York Daily News, United Federation of Teacher President, Michael Mulgrew called for an end to test prep:Test prep isn't instruction. In virtually every school I have gone into in recent years, teachers complained about instructional time lost to prepping students for tests. Art and music fell by the wayside years ago in most schools, but many schools were also … [Read more...] about A Good Idea: Let’s End Test Prep and Expand the Curriculum
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The American Teacher Magazine Cover Story on Arts Education
The American Teacher is the bi-monthly magazine published by the American Federation of Teachers. The February edition has a cover story on arts education in the United States. And it's quite a swell cover!Click here to read it. For some reason, there is this underlying element in the arts that makes you feel you have to justify what you're doing, says Karla Back, who teaches … [Read more...] about The American Teacher Magazine Cover Story on Arts Education