Suppose afterschool arts programs tried a marketplace model to get more low-income, urban young people involved in the arts. That would make youngsters the programs’ “consumers” – with many options for their time and attention – and suggest the wisdom of finding out what these potential customers actually want. https://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/Knowledge-in-Brief-Something-to-Say.pdf

There has long been an ongoing debate about the validity of arts education within schools—some think that they are frivolous in comparison to the Common Core and STEM-focused subjects, others argue the arts are intrinsically valuable to both education and life. The fact of the matter—and yes, we can indeed say fact as the many benefits […]

In my years in the classroom, I have had the pleasure of teaching several children who have either one or two artists as parents. These children, who have a higher than average exposure to art and the media for creating it, possess some qualities that many other children do not have: in addition to their […]

The Final Report of the Review of the Australian Curriculum is seriously flawed. Many aspects of the report have attracted comment – but the recommendation that schools do away with a major, world-leading innovation has not.  For the first time, media arts, one of the five strands of the Arts curriculum, was to become a compulsory subject for primary school […]