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Guest Blog, Jane Remer: The Metropolitan Opera to the Arts Ed Rescue?????
Jane Remer’s Cliff Notes: Problem: The Arts Are Dwindling in Our Schools. Especially opera. Solution: The Metropolitan Opera to the Rescue??? “Here I go again I hear those trumpets blow again All aglow again Taking a chance on love” —Ethel Waters singing in the great movie, Cabin in the Sky I am a passionate opera/music…
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The Nation’s Report Card for Reading and Math: Will Dismal Results Bring More of the Same (higher stakes testing)?
As Igor Stravinsky once said, good composers borrow; great composers steal. So, instead of writing my own setting of the stage, let me steal from my fine colleague and friend at Common Core, Lynne Munson: I challenge anyone to think of a nation that works as hard as we do to find silver linings in…
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People You Should Know: Laurie Lock–Music and Arts Education Advocate
A tribute is in order, I strongly believe, because I know few people who have been such fierce, honest, and strategic advocates for music and arts education as is Laurie Lock. You see, Laurie, after 11 years of directing programs and policy at VH1 Save The Music Foundation, is stepping down to care for her…
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GIA Conference D3: Final Thoughts (Arts Education IS Social Justice)
GIA Conference D3/Wrap Up While this will be my final post as one of the three official conference bloggers, I have no doubt that so very much of what I encountered idea-wise will infiltrate not only my blogging on Dewey21C, but also my work for quite some time. That statement should tell you a lot…
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GIA Conference D1: The Times They Are A-Changin’, The Times They Are A-Changed
So, how does one take a dozen pages of hastily typed notes covering approximately seven hours of a conference day, including plenary, panel presentations, and forum-type sessions? Hell if I know. Let’s call it a blog in process. I have to give everyone credit for how things kicked off. Right from the start, Janet Brown…
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Blogging on the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Part One
It’s Columbus Day morning in San Francisco. A great city to visit is what I always think upon arrival and when departing for home. So, it’s 5:00 in the morning, and since I am on eastern time, I thought, what the heck, I might as well post something, perhaps some preliminary thoughts on the 2011…
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Looking For A Few Good Standards Authors: The New Arts Education National Standards
Help Wanted: Coalition Seeks Writers for New Arts Standards By Erik Robelen<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/> Ever looked at a set of standards and thought to yourself: Why on Earth did they include that? Or, I can’t believe they left out XYZ! Well, enough of the Monday morning quarterbacking. A national coalition is looking for a few good men and…
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Steve Jobs, Rest in Peace
I am writing this entry on an absolutely beautiful month or so old Macbook Air. The first computer I ever used was a Mac. There were two: a Powerbook 145B and a Centris 610. I think it was System 6. When I finally went to work at a shop that used PCs, I was stunned…
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Federal K-12 Arts Ed Funding on the Chopping Block Again
In case you missed it, on September 29th, in Ed Week’s Curriculum Matters blog was this article: STEM Ed. Among Cuts Sought in Draft House Budget Plan. The House is at it again, proposing the zeroing out of K-12 arts education at the USDOE, as well as a host of other vital programs, including the…
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A Shot To The Foot: How The Arts Ed Field Can Be Its Own Worst Enemy
I have been meaning to write about this these two horribly disappointing Opininator posts in The New York Times: Beyond Baby Mozart, Students Who Rock, by David Bornstein Rock is Not The Enemy, by David Bornstein For about as long as I have been in this field, which is longer than I would now like…