Recently added articles from Arts Education Policy Review:
The Doctor of Musical Arts in music education: a distinctive credential needed at this time.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: The music education profession is in a period of transition. New musics, cultural understandings, and technologies require music teachers to continually update their knowledge and skills. Regulatory changes in many states that require teachers to pursue continuing education ...
Twilight in the Valley of the Sun: nonprofit arts and culture programs in Arizona's public schools post-no child left behind.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: This study explores the presence and impact of nonprofit arts and culture programs in partnership with Arizona's public schools. Arts and culture offerings are limited by many facets of the educational system, including the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), as evidenced by ...
Advanced placement in studio art and secondary art education policy: countering the null curriculum.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: Because of education reform policy and misconceptions about artistry and artistic assessment, visual art education remains in the margins of high school education. One response to the lack of supportive arts education policy is the Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art Program, a ...
Are advanced placement courses diminishing liberal arts education?(Reprint)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As first appeared in Education Week, September 3, 2008. Reprinted with permission from the author. At this time of year, thousands of academically accomplished students enter selective higher education institutions like mine, beginning their arduous journey toward bachelor's ...
Expanding arts education in a digital age.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: This article proposes a way to expand the study of arts education within new contexts of technology and globalization. Drawing upon theories that have informed arts and aesthetic education in the past, the authors suggest new applications for these ideas to ensure that arts ...
Arts education policy lessons learned from the southeastern college art conference.(Conference news)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: This article provides functional, moderate, and constructive arts education policy lessons drawn from the development of two Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) visual arts education policy statements over the past fifteen years. These lessons can help formulate ...
Learning matters.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Readers of Arts Education Policy Review are well aware of many forces at work that influence decision making about the study of the arts in schools and beyond. These forces are named, categorized, and analyzed in many ways. Often the focus is on a policy formulation such as No Child Left ...
Still at risk: what students don't know, even now: a report from Common Core.(Reprint)
Jan 01, 2009; ... LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Senator Joseph McCarthy investigated people who protested the war in Vietnam, better known as the Second World War. Fortunately, that war was over before Christopher Columbus sailed to America; otherwise, we might have never experienced the ...
Dwelling in possibilities: our students' spectacular hunger for life makes them radically vulnerable.(Viewpoint essay)(Reprint)
Jan 01, 2009; ... At the beginning of school last fall, I ran into a student on the University of Virginia Lawn, not far from the famous statue of Homer instructing an admiring pupil. Homer's student is in a toga. Mine was wearing wraparound sunglasses like Bono's, black jeans, and a red T-shirt emblazoned ...
Solitary confinement in education.(Reprint)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... If you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that--but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He has to use his imagination, be more creative, more innovative; he's got to take risks .... I've always told ...
Requirements, cultural development, and arts education.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has provided a valuable second report on the status of reading. To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence supplies the basis for numerous interpretations and analyses. It shows conclusively that Americans in the current Pre-K-12 ...
To read or not to read: a question of national consequence: executive summary.(Reprint)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008 ... In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts published Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. This detailed study showed that Americans in almost every demographic group were reading fiction, poetry, and drama--and books in general--at significantly lower rates than 10 ...
A federal arts agency at the center of reading research: how we got here.(National Endowment for the Arts)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: In this article, the author offers a short summary of the findings of the the National Endowment for the Arts report on the status of reading, To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence, and an explanation of the guiding rationale for the study and some future ...
State high-school exit tests do not improve academic achievement, study finds.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... A new study has found that state requirements that students pass exit tests to graduate from high school appear to do nothing to improve achievement on federal reading and mathematics tests. The study, the results of which have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in ...
Educational aesthetics and policy.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract: In this article, the author conceptualizes educational aesthetics in terms of two domains: educational aesthetics as arts education and educational aesthetics as a range of nonarts educational activities understood from artistic and aesthetic points of view. A lead is taken from ...
Qualitative assessment of arts education.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Exploring the complicated issues of assessment in the arts, the authors discuss assessment of arts education and arts programs from a qualitative perspective: experiential, naturalistic, and ethnographic interpretation. With special attention to the practices of teaching, ...
Instructional time in elementary schools: a closer look at changes for specific subjects.
Jul 01, 2008 ... A report in the series from the capital to the classroom: year of the No Child Left Behind Act Key Findings As part of an ongoing study of the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the Center on Education Policy (CEP) conducted a deeper analysis of 2006-07 ...
Rembrandt, educational standards, and policy.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Abstract: The author describes an ongoing National Endowment for the Humanities project that is devoted to building multiple competences by studying Rembrandt and seventeenthcentury Dutch culture. Its uniqueness consists in its designing of a state-of-the-art Web site that interrelates the ...
Partnerships and local K--12 arts education policy development: significant beginnings.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Abstract: The author presents reviews that identity success factors in music and arts education partnerships between cultural institutions and K--12 schools. She incorporates the evaluation of one Massachusetts partnership, Arts Can Teach (ACT), to examine the connection between ...
Multimodal literacy and theater education.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Abstract: In this article, the author explores the possibilities of teaching and learning through multiple-literacies in an arts environment. Acknowledging that technologies have a profound effect on our society, and often outpace our ability to properly assess or understand their ...