Tag: art

  • Guest Blog, Jane Remer: A Paradox, A Paradox, A Most Ingenious Paradox –The Common Core of State Standards and The Untamable Core of the American Class System

    Guest Blog, Jane Remer: A Paradox, A Paradox, A Most Ingenious Paradox –The Common Core of State Standards and The Untamable Core of the American Class System

    Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: September 29, 2011 “A Paradox, A Paradox, a Most Ingenious Paradox” (Pirates of Penzance/Gilbert and Sullivan), The Common Core of (Voluntary) State Standards and the Untamable Core of the American Class System. The 21st Century is young, but it’s clearly becoming a paradox. The now developing Common Core meticulously charts the paths and…

  • Is A Liberal Arts Education Dead Meat?

    There are a lot of folks who are taking aim at the liberal arts. Lately, there’s been quite a lot of attention paid to a recent speech by Bill Gates at the National Governors Association, where he questioned funding liberal arts programs because the area did not produce enough jobs. For me, this is just…

  • A Living Mural At McKinley Middle School: Sustaining the Arts Across Years

    Classes Come and Go, But the Mural Grows and Grows, by Fernanda Santos, The New York Times, May 18th, 2011 The mural occupies the walls and steel doors along two floors of a middle school in Brooklyn. If turned into pavement, it would extend more than two city blocks. It’s a terrific story about a…

  • To Turn Her Middle School Around, A Principal Invests in the Arts

    There’s probably not a ton of Artsjournal.com readers that read GothamSchools.org. Nevertheless, it is the go-to web site for news about New York City Public Schools, and its reach continues to grow nationwide. And, I would say that, even if they hadn’t written such a terrific feature on how the arts can be part of…

  • The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System: Part Two

    In July 2009, I posted what is now the first installment of a multi-part piece: POV: The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System. Essentially, I was sharing with the readers of Dewey21C, an article that had been published in the New York Teacher. Today, I received a sad follow-up, directly from Linda…

  • Another Favorite Education Video: Meet Nel Noddings

    I can see by the web traffic to Dewey21C, that people seem to like videos. So, I am really pleased to bring to you a name that is not all that well known in arts education circles: Nel Noddings. If you want insight into the art of teaching, not to the tests, but teaching of…

  • Books. Children. Arts. Education!

    It’s never too early to consider your holiday gift list. Today, I present to you a lucky 13 list of primarily arts-oriented books for children. The wonderful thing about these books, which for me is a big-time measure of children’s book quality overall, is that adults will enjoy these books just as much as the…

  • What do Children Need the Most?

    A number of years back I was fortunate to attend a two-day conference on Arts, Technology, and Intellectual Property at Columbia University’s American Assembly.  At the time I was working for the American Music Center, so the topic was something I had a vested interest in. As with most conferences, there was the introductory moment…

  • A Moment of Clarity: Test Scores in New York State Are Recalibrated

    Many of you have no doubt heard the great news over the past few years about rising ELA and math test scores in the New York City Public Schools. But wait, there was more: test scores were rising all across the state, no matter what the intervention. The New York State Department of Education has…

  • Arts Education and the USDOE i3: Who, What, and How Much Requested

    As an quick update: this just in via email from the USDOE i3 Team: Thank you for your participation in the Investing in Innovation (i3) program and for your efforts to improve public education. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) received nearly 1,700 applications for the i3 competition. We are pleased to share that we…