 |
 |
 |
 |
Log In |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
Posting to the site To reply to or post a comment, you must be a registered user. Please feel free to register.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Menu |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Search Web Pages |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Calendar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
The Arts in Public School Education live HERE! Welcome to heartsinthearts.com..."To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable" (Raymond Williams).Asking the questions that need to be asked about the Arts and Public Education. The budgets? Minuscule. The learning spaces? Inadequate. The staffing plans? Atrocious and inhumane. Future planning? Nowhere. Arts Teachers, dispirited and disheartened are just holding on for better times. Artists themselves, their own art dwindles daily. So what if the change we have been waiting for is us? I think it is. I know it is. The country cries out for innovation- and they'll never see enough true innovation and creativity without the Arts. The Arts teach people to think, to be together, to build teams, to develop ideas. The Arts teach aspiration to a higher stage of accomplishment. Whether it is teaching the Arts in an interdisciplinary form, such as using Music to teach Math or Poetry to teach Biology; or taught for their own sake, the Arts are part of the human experience. They are the human experience in the classroom when young minds latch onto a concept and make it their own. Music, Art, Drama; these are reasons to go to school for some students. We as a society are denied the creativity of students when the Arts programs are cut. Where are the African American violinists in our public schools/the Hispanic oboists? How many of our public school students think 'cello' is a dessert? It just isn't right. Students have the right to literacy, numeracy and creativity. Creativity is to be nurtured, as much as the human spirit is to be nurtured. So, change it! You see from the inside as a teacher, program planner, program Director, parent, student... Add your voice here- tell your experiences, good and bad, and add them to our growing data-base of grass-roots data supporting more Arts in the Public school systems. We'll make this effort THE NEXT BIG THING- Excellence in Arts Education in the Public Schools! Click around, read an article, and find a Forum - you'll see "New Topic"- click there and tell us your story. Find the comment section after each section- and Comment! Suggest another article- write another article! What would you tell a State or Federal government education department how to make it better? What would you tell a sympathetic friend who's just there to listen? heartsinthearts.com Director Katrina S. Axelrod heartsinthearts.com is not affiliated with any Board of Education or municipal or state agency. heartsinthearts.com is a wholly-owned project of Meriden ArtsTrust, Meriden, Connecticut, USA KSA
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Comments The comments are owned by the poster. We are not responsible for its content.
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||