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Guest Blog, Nick Rabkin: The Three Horsemen of Arts Education
It makes me happy to welcome back my good pal Nick Rabkin to Dewey21c. –RK The Three Horsemen of Arts Education by Nick Rabkin I’ve done research on teaching artists for the last three years—from Boston to San Diego—at NORC at the University of Chicago. (My report is available for download at…
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Batuta — Columbia’s El Sistema. An Essay by Eric Booth and Tricia Tunstall
As I write, I am staring out the window on the 7:00 Acela heading to DC from New York Penn Station. I have a board meeting of Common Core, for which I am board treasurer. What was a sunny day in New York, has turned into a deep fog. The train moves through the fog…
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The Lost (Arts Education) Paragraphs of Arne Duncan
For those who may have missed this particular topic when I blogged about it on Dewey21C, it has returned in a slightly reworked version on The Huffington Post: Click here to read The Lost Paragraphs of Arne Duncan
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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…
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NYS Assembly Member Files Appeal to Force NYC to Meet State Law on Music Education
It’s a savvy approach to a long-term problem: the New York City Public Schools do not provide the minimum levels of music (and arts) education required by the State of New York. Assembly Member Alan Maisel, acting on behalf of the Music Educator’s Association of New York, filed an appeal with David Steiner, Education Commissioner,…
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The Lost Paragraphs from Arne Duncan’s Arts Education Speech at AEP
Well, by lost, I mean if I could wave a magic wand, this is what he would have added… Let me start from the beginning. As most of you know, last Friday at the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) Forum held in DC, both Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education and Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National Endowment for…
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Key K-12 Arts Education Legislation Derailed in Colorado
This legislation wasn’t asking for much, compared to what many states have on the books. Nevertheless, it got quite the bum’s rush by the Colorado School Boards Association, in particular. Click here to read: Critics Pan Arts Education Mandate Merrifield, a retired music teacher, is chair of the House Education Committee and is serving his…
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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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College and Career Ready: A Possible Major Goal for the new NCLB
Oops, I did it again. NCLB is out! We’re talking about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. A front page piece appeared in today’s Times about where ESEA is headed. Annual Yearly Progress (AYP), the engine of NCLB, appears to be heading for the hills, to be replaced by a broader measurement of progress, and…
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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…