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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Fight Cuts to Cali Education Budget
I’ve seen a lot of advocacy videos, but not one like this. It’s hard hitting, direct, has a sense of humor, and has the current it girl: Megan Fox. And as of the writing of this blog, almost 250,000 people have viewed it on YouTube… It’s certainly worth a look, even if it’s not specifically…
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The Joe McCarthy of Art Education
Apologies first, to all those who love Joe McCarthy. He still has a big following in certain political circles. First it was an attack earlier this year on Maxine Greene and now it’s an editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal: The Political Assault on Art Education, both by Michelle Marder Kamhi. A brief…
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Guest Blogger, Ted Wiprud: From the UNESCO Arts Education Conference, Part IV
UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education in Seoul Blog 4 Theodore Wiprud June 22, 2010 I wasn’t sure why the composer Hi Kyung Kim was keynoter for the second day of the UNESCO 2nd World Conference on Arts Education – a day devoted to “Advocacy: Outreach to socio-cultural values.” She talked about artistic dialogue…
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A Win for Arts Education Advocates in Los Angeles
Or better yet, a big win for the children in LAUSD. Thanks to a campaign spearheaded by Arts for LA, and perhaps best personified by this full page ad in the Los Angeles Times, the LAUSD school board decided to reduce the level of proposed cuts to elementary arts education teachers by one-third, rather than…
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Church Leaders Raise Concerns Over Obama Education Agenda
An Alternative Vision for Public Education–A Patoral Letter on Federal Policy in Public Education: An Ecumenical Call for Justice, by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. This is one pretty great letter and I would urge you to read it. Here are a few “choice” excerpts: Not only has the…
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Connecticut Bolsters Graduation Requirements for the Arts
Dewey21C was pretty quiet last week. It happens, what can I say? With all the end of the fiscal year work to be put to bed, this will be my first post in over a week. But hey, it’s a good one! As part of a comprehensive education “reform” bill signed into law by Connecticut…
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Dance Teacher Magazine Feature on Jody Arnhold
There are those among us, who somehow manage to do it all. I can never quite figure out how they manage it, but they do. Jody Arnhold is all that: master teacher, builder of organizations, board leader, patron, community leader, friend, advocate, and all around great lady. Dance Teacher Magazine had a cover feature on…
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What is Happenning to Music Education in the Detroit Public Schools??
I had a blog entry last December about cuts to music in the Detroit Public Schools Along comes this very thoughtful and thorough piece about DPS and its new approach to music education via a piece by George Shirley that was published this week in NewMusicBox.org. Music Education in Detroit’s Public Schools: The Struggle to…
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Jack Beeson, American Composer, RIP
There it was staring me in the face: Jack Beeson had died. I saw it when I clicked over to NewMusicBox.org. I had just seen Jack at the American Music Center awards barely a month ago, and so it goes. There is very fine obituary by Tony Tommasini that appeared in today’s New York Times.…
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Guest Blogger, Ted Wiprud: From the UNESCO International Arts Education Conference, Part III
UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education in Seoul Theodore Wiprud June 6, 2010 I was particularly looking forward to the UNESCO conference roundtable on research in arts education – specifically titled “Supporting the Practical Use of Researches: Suggestions to Enhance Practicality and Reliability of Arts Education Researches.” What transpired was intriguing in ways I’d…