Introduction The Center for Creative Education in Palm Beach County provides arts integration programs to K-2 students. The Center structures its school support by pairing teaching artists who partner with regular classroom teachers to deliver the creative arts integration. The … 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
Accountability for Numbers Standardized testing in K-12 schools has a twenty-year history of being the one and only way that we hold students, teachers, principals, schools, districts and states accountable for public education. The problem with them is that they … Continued
I have been invited to this congressional briefing this Thursday and want to share the details with you! Congressional Briefing Remarks by Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) 216 Hart Senate Building, Washington, … Continued
Introduction Although the stated purpose of any evaluation is to study and confirm an education non-profit’s impact on students, the alignment of objectives with data collection is a process that reveals performance, challenges data collection and suggests changes in collection … Continued
New Forms of Assessment For some time, I have been advocating for new forms of assessment that are more informative. The current testing that goes on in schools when it is standardized, i.e., the same questions are offered to each … Continued
EVIDENCE OF STUDENT LEARNING IN THE ARTS There is a widely acknowledged need, in the arts as well as in other academic areas, to assess student learning well. One of the ideas I share with the field is the emphasis … Continued
It is a feature of the American system of education that the local school board has control of how students are educated. This local control promotes a kind of accountability that feels like each of our communities has their hand … Continued
On Saturday, President Obama declared an over-emphasis on testing in our nation’s schools. in a twenty-year trend of increased accountability through increased testing, the administration acknowledged their role in pushing too much accountability through testing, set new goals for a … Continued