Factory-Model Schooling One of the ways in which we think about teaching and learning is to ask what do we want our students to learn. Although this is a great question, the answers that teachers and schools choose often lead … Continued
Introduction Last week I was in Kentucky to speak about the role of arts education to members of the Kentucky Arts Alliance. I want to include some of the power point presentation I made to them. I started out talking … Continued
World War II Vets Return To College I found a blog by Don Clark on Bloom’s revised taxonomy of educational objectives. I was familiar with the old taxonomy but not the revised one, so I began to research the history of … Continued
A Box Of Photos Lt. General Mark Hertling was on CNN remembering his fallen fellow soldiers by making a box and putting the pictures of his lost friends in it. Over this memorial day weekend he will be spending an … Continued
Poverty in Education I have been writing recently about the cost of poverty to children’s learning. How can we expect schools to do their best when more than half of the students who attend these schools are on free and … Continued
In the last blog, I tried to link poverty, education and arts integration, by arguing that education can help the condition of poverty and arts integration can help students in poverty to excel in traditional curriculums and assessments. I will … Continued
Where is Art? When I want to see some art, I turn to my museum. I was brought up by a family who regularly took me to the museums in New York City and who asked me to see what … Continued
Context David Byrne’s, “How Music Works,” (2012), starts with the chapter called, “Creation in Reverse.” In this first chapter, Byrne’s insight is that “context determines what is written, painted, sculpted, sung or performed” (page 13). He argues that artists don’t … Continued
I follow some of the national conversation about how our country compares to other countries in order to find the characteristics that would help us move our country forward. For many years international assessments have not confirmed that the United … Continued
Concerns About Cell Phone Use There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about our children’s use of their phones and the implication that we all need to be better about understanding how much and to what degree we … Continued