Posted by Munira Khapra On March – 28 – 2011 According to a survey conducted by MetLife, American students (grades 6–12) believe that studying the arts – in addition to history, government, and politics – is important to understanding other nations and cultures and international issues. This is in contrast to their teachers, who view more...
Posted by Ethan Clark On March – 4 – 2011 During my career as Director of Bands for a high school, the need for advocacy and awareness for arts education became ever more prevalent as state-initiatives focused on standardized testing. Wanting to do more on a larger level, I discovered there were opportunities in arts management beyond the more...
Posted by Lynne Kingsley On March – 17 – 2011 Though it’s a generally accepted concept that infusing 21st Century Skills into education for our nation’s students is vital for creating and maintaining a strong, globally competitive society, we, as a professional arts education field, are having a tough time letting go of 20th century more...
Posted by Michael Wilkerson Leadership. As someone who loves to lecture (sorry, students), even my own eyes glaze over at the word. Go to any business section of any bookstore and you can find hundreds of tomes that boil down to one extended metaphor in the form of a book length advice column: “The fiction writer’s way of leadership,” The housewife’s more...
