Perhaps you’re thinking that espresso isn’t exactly one of the arts education disciplines traditionally found in state standards. Yes, that may be so. Nevertheless, if you don’t know espresso as an art form, perhaps it’s time to join the third wave. The Third Wave of Coffee that is. I think the best place to start…

Okay, here is a links to give you a sense of cuts to arts positions being proposed at the Dallas Independent School District. These types of reports are coming down the pike daily, from all different parts of the country. This one has a bit more to it as there is an interesting blog post…

In case you haven’t heard, New York City is in the midst of a sea of strum and drang related to a June 30th deadline to renew the law that grants the Mayor of the City of New York near absolute control of the New York City public schools.An obituary appeared in the New York…

It’s an interesting question, I mean set of questions, don’t you think? You see, when we first started protesting about the elimination of dedicated funding for arts education, we were told: “don’t worry, there is so much more money coming to the schools every year, Project Arts (the dedicated funding) no longer matters.” So, in…

Yesterday, the New York City schools chancellor addressed next year’s school budget. Today, principals will receive their budgets for next year. 

 Even after the stimulus monies, schools are looking at a five percent cut. Those who established reserve funds, which are for a number of obvious reasons are relatively limited in the amount you…

As a follow-up to Jane Remer’s piece yesterday, as well as the Arts Education Bill of Rights I posted a few weeks ago, here is another piece of the puzzle we’re putting together at The Center for Arts Education. It is a campaign to restore dedicated funding for arts education in the New York City…

We have known for a long time that the second or third class status of the arts as general education in our public schools would probably never change until some powerful people at the national, state and local level are inspired to declare them essential as a matter of policy.  Ultimately, that policy must be…

One day later, if you haven’t already heard about Rocco Landesman being nominated as the next chair of the Arts Endowment, you must be on life support, in the witness protection program, or not interested. You’re going to read a lot about Landesman: there will be the profiles, conjecture as to the direction he will…

A couple of months ago, a grim picture for schools was painted by the Schools Chancellor. Then there was the stimulus package, with a central focus on protecting jobs of teachers. Then there was a budget offered by the Mayor which projected that there would be no teacher layoffs and that the NYCDOE was being…

It always amazes me how many people in the arts education community don’t know David Perkins. Perhaps it’s because he isn’t an arts guy, per se, but rather received his Ph.D from MIT in mathematics and artificial intelligence. Perhaps it’s the wide range of his work. There are many other Project Zero faculty who are…