Tag: Arts

  • Federal USDOE Arts Education Funding Cut, but Not Eliminated

    There are many people across the country who have been waiting on tenterhooks to find out whether or not arts education funding at the United States Department of Education would be zeroed out. It includes funding for the Kennedy Center, VSA Arts, and the competitive grant programs: Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination and Professional…

  • Worth The Time: A 1999 Conversation with Maxine Greene

    From the December edition of NewMusicBox.org, comes “An Arts Education Symposium,” with the great Maxine Greene, Hollis Headrick, Polly Kahn, Frank Oteri, and me. For those who don’t know Polly, she’s the former education director at The New York Philharmonic, the 92nd Street Y, and other organizations. Today, she is the vice president for learning…

  • A Interesting Conference Session on Arts Education and Equity

    For anyone attending WNET’s The Celebration of Teaching and Learning, tomorrow through Saturday, at The New York Hilton, I hope you will consider stopping by. I mean, how often do you get a rising star principal, a teachers union leader, and a member of the governing board for state education policy in one room together…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tacking on to Undercofler and Taylor: What Do Graduates of Arts Colleges Need to Know and Be Able To Do?

    I’ve been following the recent posts of Jim Undercofler and Andrew Taylor: Jim’s post, Arts Entrepreneurship — Lack of Imagination, Lack of Chutzpah? was followed up by Andrew’s post, Is Arts Entrepreneurship Training  Really Just Career Prep? So, here’s my tack-on, making for a trio on the subject. Today, much of the K-12 education debate…