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Guest Blog, Jane Remer: If We’re Not At the Table, We’re On the Menu: Will the Arts Survive This Time as Education in Our Schools?
Jane Remer’s Cliff Notes: March 10, 2011 If We’re Not At the Table, We’re On the Menu: Will the Arts Survive This Time as Education in Our Schools? At the Face to Face Conference at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens a few weeks ago, some of my colleagues and I engaged…
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From the Source: Q&A With the Nick Rabkin, Author of Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation
A lot of attention has been paid to the recent report commissioned by the arts endowment: Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation. I thought it would be a great opportunity to pose some questions for the author, Nick Rabkin. Let’s just say that rather than leave interpretation to others, that…
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A Voice of Reason Around Federal Funding
There is a great deal of concern in the arts and education field, focusing for the moment the devastating cuts to arts education programs at the United States Department of Education. In the recent continuing resolution, arts education programs, as well as a host of other eduction programs were zeroed out. There’s still a chance…
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Leading Public Education Blogger Struggles with Arts Education
I am a big fan of Mike Petrilli and the gang at the Fordham Institute, even if I disagree with them from time to time. (I might add that they have been quite generous in providing help for the organization, Common Core, of which I am the board treasurer.) If you follow any of the leading…
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Education Secretary Duncan Urges School Leaders to Go Easy on Arts Ed Cuts
Last week Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter and three policy letters to the Governors: Key Policy Letters to The Governors, March 3, 2011 What you will find most interesting comes from the document Smart Ideas to Increase Educational Productivity and Student Achievement: First, Do No Harm Changes or cuts to education budgets,…
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Arts Teachers As Endangered Species
Okay, I know, this makes two posts in a row about cuts to arts education. It is, as the Mark Knopfler song goes: “It’s what it is.” In this case, it’s an old and quite sore subject. And yes, it’s a subject that makes me angry and eager for new city leadership. For all of…
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More Scorched Earth Education Policy: San Diego To Cut All Elementary Arts Teachers
It’s pretty amazing, that a relatively strong district like San Diego Unified School District would make such plans: If trustees sign off on the budget proposal, it will mean the end of all elementary music education except for the program at Crown Pointe Junior Music Academy, which does not rely on visual and performing arts…
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Must Watch Video: Diane Ravitch on Daily Show
Okay, I know, you have to wade through a commercial or two, and Diane doesn’t come on for a good ten minutes. But get this, as usual Jon Stewart is right on the button, with his usual comic flair. And that button, right from the very beginning of the show, is about cuts to education…
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Death Panels for The Arts and Education?
Yesterday President Obama signed into law the stopgap spending bill that severely cut into education funding, including eliminating funding for the United States Department of Education’s arts education programs. Here’s a little list of some of the cuts: Tweet Arts in Education–$40 million National Writing Project–$25.6 million Teach for America–$18 million Reading is Fundamental–$24.8 million…