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  • Made in America: Our Cultural Heritage

    One of the things I loved about working for The American Music Center, was the way it served as a nexus of 20th and 21st century American music. Through the collection of scores and recordings, there was a treasure trove to engage with. Through the various grant programs all sorts of information would circulate. And,…

  • I Will See You One Waiting for Superman and Raise You One Race to Nowhere

    Okay, bear in mind this movie does not have what Waiting for Superman had: the millions in foundation funding to support its promotion, nor a major broadcast network that devoted a week about K-12 education centered around it. But hey, how many documentary films gets a $2 million foundation grant for its promotion? (The answer…

  • The Shanghaiing of Arts Education

    Have you heard the news? Students from Shanghai, China have just beaten the pants of the rest of the world and in particular on the United States, on a respected international assessment in reading, math, and science. The assessment is known by its acronym PISA, which stands for Program for International Student Assessment. “Wow, I’m…

  • The Arts Education Holiday Shopping List: Great Gifts for Kids and Families

    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…

  • All The Noise: Cathie Is The New Black

    It’s been about three weeks since my last entry. That makes this little hiatus the longest one by far since I started Dewey21C in July 2009. Let there be no doubt that a lack of entries severely depresses the number of visitors to a blog site, not that I am counting mind you! So, what…

  • 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

  • The Arts Education Canary in the Coal Mine?

    I think that a lot of people don’t realize that the past decade has seen historic increases to funding for public education. Some school districts, like the New York City public schools had an increase of 80% or more. It is a tough pill to swallow, once you realize that the historic increases to funding…

  • The Shape of Things to Come–The iPhone Band

    Sorry H.G., but it’s really more like the shape of things already here. Okay, here’s a swell YouTube video of the group Atomic Live, performing “Take Me Out,” live on the NYC subway, with instruments all emulated by their iPhones: It made me smile…

  • Live Chat on the Arts, from The White House

    On Tuesday, October 19, at 2:15 p.m. EDT, the White House is hosting a live web chat with leaders from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.  You can watch live or visit the archived chat later on. For those of you on Facebook, meaning practically everyone, you can submit questions via the…

  • Seattle Mayor and Public School Chief Academic Officer Host Arts Education Forum

    This one is in the pretty cool category. I don’t think it’s all that often that a big city mayor and a the chief instructional administrator of a school district host and directly participate in an arts education forum. What you usually get, at most, is a proxy for the mayor, or perhaps a very…