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A Rapidly Growing Concern about Arts Education at the USDOE: Part III
Okay, for those of you who have been following this, here’s Part III. At the bottom of this entry is the pertinent FY 2011 budget request from the Administration. What this tells us is $137mm would be allocated for the grants portion of the third of three new categories of funding that includes arts education:…
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What do School Teachers Want and Need?
The Gates Foundation teamed up with Scholastic Inc, and Harris Interactive to conduct a survey of 40,000 teachers nationwide. Primary Sources: America’s Teachers on America’s Schools is the name of the survey. I would have to say that I am not surprised by what I’ve read so far: Just 22 percent said they thought evaluations…
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A Rapidly Growing Concern about Arts Education at the USDOE: Part Two
As part of the president’s FY2011 budget request, the range of content and discipline-specific funding programs, including those for arts education, would be streamlined into three new categories: literacy, STEM, “what makes a well rounded education,” where presumably arts education would be situated. This is a follow-up to my entry from last week: A Rapidly…
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ARTS EDUCATION BILL OF RIGHTS
I get asked about this document fairly often, so I thought I would re-post it. There is something about this Arts Education Bill of Rights that captures people’s imagination. We haven’t done much with it yet, but are working on it, and see it as having great potential to frame the issues around arts education…