This after years of declines. “I think we’re seeing a resurgence of the arts. There’s been a push back by parents and others who want to keep the arts in schools and want their children to have a well-rounded education.”
Category: issues
Arts Education – The Five-Hour Difference?
The British government wants to mandate five hours of arts education in schools each week. So what exactly would you do with the time?
Time For A New GI Bill For Education
“If passed, the legislation would enable eligible veterans who have served on active duty since September 11 to receive payments covering tuition — up to the cost of in-state tuition at the most expensive public college in a veteran’s state — room, board, fees, and educational costs, plus a $1,000 monthly stipend.”
Why Do Americans Dislike Knowledge?
Americans are fitted with anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.
Canada Council Plans Its Funding Future
The Canada Council has $30 million in new funding. And a set of new initiatives and priorities…
The Museums From The Wrong Side Of The Tracks…
Chicago area ethnic museums and heritage centers feel they are on the wrong side of some arbitrary line — whether it be geographical, financial or programmatic — that consigns them to the cultural hinterlands…
American Group Says Canadian Copyright Laws Lacking
“Canada has taken no meaningful steps toward modernizing its copyright law to meet the minimum global standards of the WIPO internet treaties, which it signed more than a decade ago.”
Artists Take On The Press
Artists in Massachusetts unhappy about the lack of arts coverage in their local press stage a show…
Report: Morale Threatens London’s Arts Schools
“Tutors and course leaders work under conditions that are both stressful and unsustainable. They are undervalued and feel intimidated. Dissent, whether it’s from students, parents or tutors, is unwelcome. A culture of contempt has developed.”
Can America’s Liberal Arts Colleges Be Saved?
The 95 “true” liberal arts colleges, the pure practitioners of liberal education, are in trouble. The number of persons who view themselves as liberally educated is declining. The number who wish they were liberally educated is declining even faster and the number who think they know what a liberal education is, or even that they would like to know, is shrinking fastest of all.