Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities: Re-Investing in Arts Education

At long last, it looks like arts education and its inestimable effect on childhood development might just be getting the attention and funding that it deserves, thanks to a major initiative by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities:

Re-Investing in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools (the full pdf document is 88 pages, but a shorter summary can be found here)

I've always found it fascinating that the field of national standards and certification in the US music education system is still a wide open field. My money, of course, is on the newly minted Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program (read my previous coverage of this story here).

(Via Elaine Fine)

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