IEA Newsletter for Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Welcome to the Institute for Education and the Arts’ weekly newsletter for October 31, 2007. The newsletter is published each Wednesday to the IEA listserv and archived here on the IEA blog.

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REPORTS
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ARTS INTEGRATION FRAMEWORKS, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Arts Education Partnership, 2007
”This literature review is an essential resource for anyone involved in the research, theories, or methods and practices of arts integration. It covers what has been written between 1995 and 2007 in the U.S. and abroad and includes an historical overview, definitions and theoretical frameworks for arts integration, research and evaluation studies as well as methods and practices for each of the art forms.”
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ARTS EDUCATION AND NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
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NCLB ADVOCACY TOOLS: WE NEED THE ARTS TO LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND
Douglas Gould and Company/Keep Arts in Schools
”Parents and teachers all over the country say they want students to have a well-rounded education that engages the whole child. And they know that arts education is central to making that happen. But the focus of classroom learning since the implementation of the Federal Education Act known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), appears to be narrowing to exclude the arts and other core subjects. With Congress now facing the reauthorization of this national education policy, it's critically important to make sure that arts education doesn't get left behind! Now is the time to understand what's at stake, get the latest information and have your voice heard.”
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MUSIC INTEGRATION
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IN THIS CLASS, MATH COMES WITH MUSIC
Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post, 10/23/07
”The red plastic ON AIR sign is always lit in Eric Chandler's second-grade class, where a simple question about subtraction could elicit a rock performance styled after the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Loudon County teacher writes his own songs and also adapts the lyrics of popular tunes. Some musicians find inspiration in love or nature, but Chandler finds it in the Virginia Standards of Learning. The right combination of chords and rhythm, he says, makes the state's curriculum more fun and more memorable. ‘A song, if it's catchy enough, gets stuck in your head,’ Chandler said. So he embeds lessons in verses that kids might hum one day when sitting for a test. For years, researchers have studied whether music education raises IQ points, test scores, spatial sense or math and verbal skills. Definitive results are scarce, but experts agree that music sparks the memory. ‘Just think of the alphabet song,’ said Ellen Winner, a Boston College psychology professor who studies how music education affects learning. As formal music instruction is getting squeezed in many schools to make room for math, reading and testing, more teachers are looking for new ways to add melody or syncopation to the daily classroom diet of worksheets and more worksheets.”
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SYMPOSIUM
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ART, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY
**this week!**
Thursday, 11/1/07, 10am
Room 902, Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
”Stephanie Perrin, distinguished educator and Head of Walnut Hill School, and her colleagues from Harvard University, the Boston Public Schools, and the Arts Education Partnership will present five critical challenges facing the future of public and independent education in the United States. The Symposium will address issues and the role of educators in fostering global connections, civic virtue, imagination, integrity, and the healthy development of adolescents.” Speakers include Richard Deasy of the Arts Education Partnership, and Ellen Winner, a senior researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with remarks by Senator Edward Kennedy.
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ARTS AND COMMUNITY REJUVENATION
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CREATIVE CLASS DRIVES DOWNTOWN GROWTH
Nettie Boivin, MILife, MITimes, 10/24/07
I don’t know about you, but I swear there are impressive new lofts, galleries, restaurants and bars popping up everywhere I look … What’s even more impressive are the young, enterprising spirits strolling around these urban spaces, shaking things up and taking our downtowns from gloom to boom. ‘Our generation is different from our parents',’ says Kate Tykocki at Capital Area Michigan Works in Lansing [Michigan]. ‘They could fall back onto manufacturing. We don't have that. You have to create your own opportunities. These entrepreneurs are creating their own futures.’ Old Town in Lansing is a shining example of resurgence. The 10-block area was the original downtown of Lansing in the 1800s. It was blue collar until the 1960s and then became seedy. A decade later, revitalization began, and today the district continues to grow exponentially. In June, Old Town welcomed eight new businesses. In September, it held a ribbon cutting for nine new businesses and then another 13 in October – a mix of retail, restaurant, nonprofit, creative arts, galleries and a law firm.” Artist Nick Stockton remarks, ‘The impact is great. It’s keeping the creative class in the Midwest doing our part in rebuilding communities and growing our city's culture.’
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PROGRAMMING
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Art in the Twenty-First Century: Romance
PBS, New Season begins the week of 10/28/07
On-Air & Online
Grade Range: 9-12
”The only primetime national television series to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists returns to PBS with four new episodes. The premiere hour features four distinctly different artists whose works pose questions about the role of emotion, regret, fantasy and nostalgia in contemporary art.
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GRANTS, FUNDING, CONTESTS, AND AWARDS
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SURDNA ARTS TEACHERS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
***Deadline Coming Soon!***
Deadline: 11/16/07
“The Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program recognizes that art teachers often lack the time and resources to reconnect with the artistic processes they teach and offers grants to enable selected teachers to perform art with professionals in their disciplines and stay current with new practices and resources.” All permanently assigned full- and part-time arts faculty in specialized, public arts high schools are eligible. The maximum award is $6500.
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