Barry's Blog Turns to Policy Discussion for Week 3
Submitted by Steve on August 8, 2011
Barry Hessenius's blog at Westaf has spent the past two weeks focused on Arts Education in the context of Practice and Fieldbuilding. This week the discussion turns to Policy with a new panel of respondents:
- Janet Brown, Executive Director, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Cyrus Driver, Program Learning and Innovation, Ford Foundation
- Bob Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
- Narric Rome, Senior Director for Federal Affairs and Arts Education, Americans for the Arts
- Laurie Schell, outgoing Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education
The first question for this group is this:
What opportunities are there for developing a national arts education policy that can inform state and local policy? How important is it that the arts are part of Common Core Standards and the reauthorization of ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)?