Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino joins Laura Perille, Executive Director of EdVestors, in supporting the Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion Initiative. The Initiative recently announced its receipt of a $4 million Wallace grant:
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- Romney Campaign Focuses on Education Policy, from Grantmakers in the Arts
- Rules Proposed for District Race to Top Contest, from Education Week
- District Grant Contest Unveiled by Department of Education, from The New York Times
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- Kline Asks GAO to Examine Race to Top States' Progress on Teachers, from Education Week
- Making Schools Work, Op/Ed from The New York Times
- U.S. May Require College Language Programs to Get Special Accreditation, from The Chronicle of Higher Education
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- Ed. Department Offers States Feedback on NCLB Waivers, from Education Week
- Why the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate Matters, from Huffington Post
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- White House threatens to veto student loan bill, from Associated Press
- More Negotiated Rule Making Planned, from Inside Higher Ed
- With G.O.P.’s Ear, Rubio Pushes Dream Act Proposal, from The New York Times
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- Effort afoot to restore art in California schools, from San Francisco Chronicle
- Lawmakers Want Rural Focus in District Race to Top, from Education Week
- Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Standards, from Education Week
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Presidentially-appointed artists Chuck Close, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Damian Woetzel and Alfre Woodard to work with schools in eight states as part of the program
See also, GIA Executive Director Janet Brown's response to this announcement.
Today the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced the launch of a new arts education initiative to help turn around low-performing schools, developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Turnaround Arts initiative is a new public-private partnership designed to narrow the achievement gap and increase student engagement through the arts. Working in some of the nation’s lowest-performing elementary and middle schools, this program will test the hypothesis that high-quality and integrated arts education boosts academic achievement, motivates student learning and improves school culture in the context of overall school reform, announced the committee’s co-chairs, George Stevens Jr. and Margo Lion.
Turnaround Arts will work in eight “turnaround schools” across the country—public schools in the lowest-achieving five percent of their state that are receiving School Improvement Grants through the U.S. Department of Education. Over the course of two years, Turnaround Arts will bring intensive arts education resources and expertise into these schools and support the school leadership in using the arts as a pillar of their reform strategy. An external evaluation of the program will measure the impact and effectiveness of this approach.
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Today, Janet Brown, the executive director of Grantmakers in the Arts made the following statement regarding the announcement on school turnaround and arts education by the President's Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The Arts Education Funders Coalition, a project of Grantmakers in the Arts, is seeking to expand the role of arts education in federal education policy.
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- Graduate Schools Need to Improve Career Counseling, Report Says, from The Chronicle of Higher Education
- States' Waivers Weak on Extended Learning Time, Report Says, from Education Week