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GIA Conference D2: Is Darwin in the House?
GIA Conference D2: 4:30 am Pacific Time. Considering the unfortunate length of my Day One entry yesterday, I thought it might be a good idea to post something today a bit more concise. So, let’s focus on two sessions. Enabling Engagement: Launching Irvine’s New Arts Strategy. Organized by Josephine Ramirez, program director, arts, The James…
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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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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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Waiting For Godot. If You Test It They Will Come. (Updated)
With today’s NY Daily News article about the New York City Department of Education’s arts assessment program, I thought I would update and repost this entry from a few month’s back. Let me start with some new thoughts and then segue right into the original entry. I was a member of the NYS Regents Task…
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Programs for the Untalented and UnGifted
Many, many times, I have been part of formal conversations that made their way around to the question of how we are identifying and supporting the talented and gifted children in the school systems. My response to the question in its many variations has been unwavering: all children are talented. Are all children gifted? Well,…