We are pleased to announce that Rick Kinsel's inaugural post is live on GIA's Talk Back blog. With this comes an open invitation to you and your colleagues to contribute to the conversation on immigration, art, and grantmaking by commenting on the Vilcek Foundation's posts, which will appear throughout the week, and by sharing your own experience of working or funding in this area. Stay tuned!
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Hello and welcome back to GIA 2011 Talk Back series! As the Executive Director of The Vilcek Foundation and guest blogger for Talk Back, I invite you to join my colleagues and me at The Vilcek Foundation, in a conversation … Continue reading
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Happy Halloween!
Today, the NEA is pleased to announce a $50,000 Our Town grant for the town of Dead End. A unique artist enclave in the Afterworld, Dead End will use its grant money to further enhance the spiritual life of its residents.
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A new report suggests an emerging pattern of success among marginalized students participating in Hip-Hop education, leading to higher attendance and graduation rates. Re-Imagining Teaching and Learning: A Snapshot of Hip-Hop Education, released Friday, of a national scan of Hip-Hop educational programs by the Hip-Hop Education Center (H2ED Center) at the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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Laura Barnett writes this article in The Guardian stating United Kingdom arts organizations are compensating for the lack of arts in schools. This is the slippery slope the USA has been on for decades relying on the nonprofit sector to provide accessibility to arts learning that should be inherent for every child in every pubilc school.
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"There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them -- designers -- contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of artists and industries, state and metro employment rates, and new demographic information such as age, education levels, income, ethnicity, and other social characteristics."
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Ian David Moss reports on his GIA conference experience at his blog, createquity.com:
It’s hard to generalize from my experience this year, and I am always conscious of the fact that the intellectual diet that I feed on at the conference is shaped by my own tastes. But in general, there seemed to be a real thirst for innovation that was just a bit more urgent than in previous years. The sessions that drew the most positive attention were, by and large, the boldest: the ones that dared to seriously question the status quo or chart forward a path that hasn’t been tried before.
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ARTSblog's continuing coverage of the 2011 GIA conference continues today with a report from Marete Wester on her Roundtable discussion, “Funding & Changing Business Models”:
Ian David Moss and Dianne Debicella of Fractured Atlas, and Dennis Scholl of the Knight Foundation started off the discussion on how different funding strategies and new business models can be employed to support creative ventures, and provide “risk-funding” artists need to launch a new project or artistic enterprise.
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Fleishhacker Foundation Trustee, Mortimer Fleishhacker III, always known to his family as "Mort," passed away peacefully at Davies Medical Center on October 25 from complications resulting from a series of strokes. Mort's primary interest centered upon serving the community in the tradition of his family. He was a member of the Fleishhacker Foundation Board for many decades. He served as President of Temple Emanuel (a role his father once held) from 1987 to 1990, during which time he led the campaign to rebuild its historic structure. Additional organizations he led or served with passion and zeal included SPUR, A.C.T., the Greenbelt Alliance, the San Francisco Jewish Family Services Agency, The Big Brothers, the Guardsmen and The San Francisco Development Fund.
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On her blog Bridging Differences, Diane Ravitch examines the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind:
Most people now recognize that NCLB is a train wreck. Its mandates have imposed on American public education an unhealthy obsession with standardized testing.
- It has incentivized cheating, as we have seen in the well-publicized cheating scandals in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.
- It has encouraged states to game the system, as we saw in New York state, where the state tests were made easier and more predictable so as to bolster the number of children who reached "proficiency."
- It has narrowed the curriculum; many districts and schools have reduced or eliminated time for the arts, physical education, and other non-tested subjects.
- It has caused states to squander billions of dollars on testing and test preparation, while teachers are laid off and essential services slashed. Now we will squander millions more on test security to detect cheating.