Americans for the Arts
“The Arts Make the Education Difference: An Arts Integration Program Enriches the Curriculum and Brings a School Community a New Level of Success.”
2004
This article focuses on the Spectra+ program at Adams Elementary School in Hamilton, Ohio, which integrates arts instruction across the disciplines at every grade level. The article gives a brief overview of what Spectra+ is and how it affects students, staff and the school as well as suggestions for how to bring the arts into schools.
http://www.americansforthearts.org/global/print.asp?id=648
Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds: An Interview with Hobbs Professor Howard Gardner.”
June 1, 2004
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and senior director at Project Zero, Howard Gardner is highly recognized for his unique theory on multiple intelligences, a philosophy that challenges the traditional assumption that we only have one type of intelligence. His current research in cognitive psychology has led to Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), a book that explores the mysterious process of mind change and a systematic approach to influencing perspectives.
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/news/features/gardner06012004.html
Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Learning in the Arts: An Interview with Faculty Member Jessica Hoffman Davis.”
July 1, 2003
Jessica Hoffmann Davis is the founding director of HGSE's Arts in Education Program. A cognitive developmental psychologist, Davis is interested in children's artistic development as well as arts learning within and across school walls. She has studied the model and promise that the arts provide for pedagogy, assessment, and research, and worked to develop the methodology of portraiture into a group process. This last area is addressed in her co-authored book, The Art and Science of Portraiture, and in Passion & Industry: Schools That Focus on the Arts, a collection of portraits of arts learning in different school contexts. A former teacher, practitioner, and administrator in the visual arts, Davis believes that arts learning should be part of every child's daily life at school
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/news/features/davis07012003.html
Howard Gardner
“An Education for the Future: The Foundation of Science and Values.”
March 2001
In a paper presented to The Royal Symposium convened by Her Majesty, Queen Beatrix in Amsterdam, Gardner discusses the dilemmas faced in education and how they might best be approached.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm
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Douglas Herbert
“Finding the Will and the Way to Make the Arts a Core Subject.”
Winter 2004
Currently a member of the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, Douglas Herbert wrote this article to provide an overview of the arts education movement while serving as the Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts.
http://www.nasbe.org/Standard/15_Winter2004/Herbert.pdf
Lori Meyer
“The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in America’s Schools.”
National Association of State Boards of Education
Winter 2004
Arts and Foreign Language instruction has been marginalized and is increasingly at risk of being completely eliminated as part of the public schools' core curriculum. With most states emphasizing accountability in only a few academic subjects—primarily reading, math, and science—there is a growing fear that schools are narrowly focusing on those subjects at the expense of other important components of a comprehensive education, such as the arts and humanities. The report provides a look at the state of arts and foreign language instruction across the country, a review of the overall benefits of arts and language study, and recommendations for policymakers on how to ensure a complete curriculum in schools.
http://www.nasbe.org/Standard/15_Winter2004/Meyer.pdf
Kirsten Miller
Mid-Continent Research for Educators and Learners (McREL)
“School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement.”
November 2003
After more than 30 years of research on schools and classrooms, a science of education has begun to emerge. Although there is no “silver bullet” that guarantees every student will be successful, now more than ever research provides guidance about the characteristics of effective schools and effective teachers that, if followed, can help maximize school performance.
This brief is based on McREL’s meta-analyses of quantitative research on teacher, school, and leadership practices. Meta-analysis, or a statistical analysis of a collection of individual studies, can be a compelling research method for determining what really works in education. Through its meta-analyses, McREL has identified a number of variables that influence student achievement. This brief offers suggestions for implementing policies and practices that can positively impact these variables.
http://www.mcrel.org/PDF/PolicyBriefs/5032PI_PBSchoolTeacherLeaderBrief.pdf
The National Arts Education Consortium
Department of Art Education, The Ohio State University
“Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge: Final Project Report.”
Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge (TETAC) was a five-year national reform initiative led by the National Arts Education Consortium (NAEC). This report reviews the development process of TETAC as well as what changes occurred during the course of the program. The report includes data and findings from the project as well as lessons learned.
http://www.aep-arts.org/PDF%20Files/Final%20Report%20TETAC2.pdf
The Ohio State University TETAC Mentors
“Integrated Curriculum Possibilities for the Arts.”
May 2002
The article is a reflection by the mentors on their involvement in a five-year effort to help reform some public schools in Ohio by integrating the arts into the curriculum.
Tetac Article for the Integrated Arts
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Innovation and Improvement
Nina S. Rees, Deputy Under Secretary
The Education Innovator, Volume II, No. 26
July 12, 2004
Suzanne Weiss
Education Commission of the States
“The Progress of Education Reform 2004: The Arts in Education”
January 2004
Weiss’s article provides a brief summary of several recent research studies on the role and value of education in the arts, as well as a look at the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in music, visual arts and theater.
http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/49/91/4991.pdf
