The Next Big Thing- Great Arts Education in the USA
Do we have a very serious problem in the educating of our children and young adults in the Arts in the USA? I'll argue that Arts Education is inadequate, antiquated, spotty, deficient and inadequately and unevenly funded. Is it the role of the public schools to teach the Arts to students? Should the Arts be presented by the public school system or would it be better that they don't even try? Are the Arts an academic subject? Should we offer the Arts and then test for proficiency? Would that attract more money and get the attention of the State Funders of Education? Should private sources help the schools fund the arts? Does the nation have a duty to present the Arts to our children and young adults? What impact does the public school system have on the professional arts organizations in our communities?
Improving the Current Dismal State of Connecticut's Art
Choose your questions, give heartsinthearts your ideas, answers, solutions, best practices- we'll have a Statewide discussion on the State of the public school system arts programs. And it will provide the data for our Next Big Thing- Great Arts in Public School Education.
What about 'Arts on a Cart'? Does this come from an adequate policy decision to spur our young people's creativity? What about Arts teachers who rotate between schools week after week? What does that program say about our priorities as a State and its level of commitment to the Arts?
The level and amount of Arts Education in Connecticut can be and will be improved by your input here. This blog is a forum for community program developers, teachers, artists, students, State of Connecticut Education officials and all other interested in improving the amount and integrity of the Arts in Arts education in CT.
Are our children Arts illiterate and are they and their parents diminished for it? Are our communities denied the creativity that our young people bring naturally because of a lousy Arts program? 'Creativity' is usually seen as something less than an academic subject-why? Where are all the Hispanic and African American violinists and oboists?
Your ideas, answers, solutions, best practices- we'll have a Statewide discussion on the State of the public school system arts programs. And it will provide the data for our Next Big Thing- Great Arts in Public School Education.
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