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  • The New York Observer: Teaching the Arts on the Cheap

    When I was interviewing for my position at The Center for Arts Education, I called a senior NYC education official to seek advice. My friend at the NYCDOE was very enthusiastic about the prospect of my being hired, until eerily, the issue of arts education advocacy came up. I asserted that a major area of…

  • Essential Reading for Arts Education–Unintended Consequences: High Stakes Can Result in Low Standards

    Okay, fair enough, the article I am strongly recommending is not about arts education, per se. Or is it? Why don’t you give a good summer read to Linda Perlstein’s piece in the American Educator: Unintended Consequences: High Stakes Can Result in Low Standards. As an added bonus, you get a short piece by noted…

  • Barry Manilow is Ready to Take a Chance Again–This Time on Music Ed

    The pressofAtlanticCity.com posted an interesting piece about Barry Manilow and his commitment to music education: Local Students to Rub Shoulders with Manilow. Apparently, Manilow not only “writes the songs” but also helps donate the instruments. If you want to learn more about Manilow and his philanthropic work including the above, click on over to the…

  • USDOE’s i3 and the Arts: The Six Percent Solution

    Last Thursday, a day earlier than expected, the USDOE announced the 49 winners of the Investing in Innovation grants, otherwise known as i3. There were approximately 1700 applications overall, 53 of which were focused on the arts Forty-nine applications were rated the highest and are now in a period of confirming the required 20 percent…

  • A Moment of Clarity: Test Scores in New York State Are Recalibrated

    Many of you have no doubt heard the great news over the past few years about rising ELA and math test scores in the New York City Public Schools. But wait, there was more: test scores were rising all across the state, no matter what the intervention. The New York State Department of Education has…

  • Arts Education and the USDOE i3: Who, What, and How Much Requested

    As an quick update: this just in via email from the USDOE i3 Team: Thank you for your participation in the Investing in Innovation (i3) program and for your efforts to improve public education. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) received nearly 1,700 applications for the i3 competition. We are pleased to share that we…

  • Guest Blog: Jane Remer, CliffNotes, A Bastille Day Wish List

    Congratulations, Richard, on this memorable Bastille Day which is also a marker for your second year on Dewey21C. I am delighted to be among your guests although lately I have been fairly mute. Once I finished the extensive article for Arts Education Policy Review (From Lessons Learned to Local Action: Building Your Own Policies for…

  • Who Owns Creativity?

    Today, is the second anniversary of the launch of Dewey21C. Two years, 323 entries, 250,598 page views, 185,295 visits, guest blogs by Jane Remer, Ted Wiprud, Jon Deak, and David Shookhoff. Here’s to the 324th entry!************************************************************************************************************ It seems to me that for many years the rhetoric of creativity was owned by the arts ed field.…

  • Important to Arts Education: When Facts are Fiction

    Many in arts education adhere to the silver bullet theory, namely that the right piece of incontrovertible research will create universal access to high quality education. And, of course, this is stoked by those who pick apart the existing research as being “soft.” There are those who believe that “facts” as the primary ammunition of…

  • Chuck Close Speaks Out About Arts Education

    …and more. Actually, I would have to call this one taking a very big swing…for those baseball, hockey, or even golf fans. Okay, very quickly I received about 50 emails about these two news items: First, is an interview on The Newshour: CHUCK CLOSE: Well, I think the problem with the arts in America is…