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  • The State of California Considers Bill That Will Hurt K-12 Arts Education

    Essentially this bill means that students who attend career and technical education high schools in the State of California do not have to have any arts instruction, at all. They still have to have all the other subjects required for graduation, but not the arts. And the really bad news is that this bill appears…

  • Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Four

    Click here for Part Three Caracas, April 12-13, 2010 This will be the start of “The Week That Was!” for us and this wonderful, colorful band of children. If I didn’t know through years of composing symphonic music that creativity can indeed be given a boost in restricted, unknown and time-intensive circumstances, I would say…

  • Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three

    Click here for Part Two Caracas, April 9-10, 2010 The excitement builds. Also the nerves. Have you ever noticed how, when you travel to a completely new environment, all emotions are magnified? The joys are expansive, the fears are bottomless, each event rings clear, vibrates with color. I feel I should go to bed wearing…

  • Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One

    I am really, really, really! pleased to bring to you one of my very favorite artists: the composer, bassist, and educator extraordinaire: Jon Deak. Jon has offered to provide a guest blog on Dewey 21C about his trip to Venezuela, as artist in residence with El Sistema, which considering all the attention it has gotten…

  • Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith

    Here’s a big welcome back to Dewey21C’s regular guest blogger, my dear friend Jane Remer. What Jane has on her mind is very well thrown dart landing right smack dead center in the bull’s eye of what is on everyone’s mind as they read about ESEA, Race to the Top, the Common Core standards project,…

  • Key K-12 Arts Education Legislation Derailed in Colorado

    This legislation wasn’t asking for much, compared to what many states have on the books. Nevertheless, it got quite the bum’s rush by the Colorado School Boards Association, in particular. Click here to read: Critics Pan Arts Education Mandate Merrifield, a retired music teacher, is chair of the House Education Committee and is serving his…

  • The Source of the Arts Education Nile: “Money is Policy”

    When the categorical funding line for arts education in the New York City Public Schools was elminated, essentially to “empower the principals” and to increase the total budget available to each school, a good friend and colleague of mine who works for the NYCDOE said: “money is policy.” Short and sweet. Don’t ya think? And…

  • Through a Prism: The Bending of K-12 Arts and Education

    As much as people are disappointed with the way arts education is situated within the USDOE’s Blueprint for ESEA reauthorization, most people I know inside and outside the arts are pleased with the proposal to rethink AYP . For those who don’t get what I am talking about, click here for a quick and lively…

  • Batter Up: The Federal i3 Grant Program

    Today in Baltimore is the first of three technical assistance sessions across the country for potential applicants to the USDOE’s i3 program. I have written two different entries on i3, click here and click here to read them. In a nutshell, the USDOE has set aside $650 million of Federal stimulus funds for education for…

  • Arts Eduation and ESEA: Where do the Arts fit in National Education Policy?

    National Education Policy you may ask, you didn’t know there was one!  Well, after reading the USDOE’s A Blueprint for Reform–The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it struck me that this was the closest thing we will get to a national education policy. For those hell bent on seeing something like this…