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The Los Angeles Music Center has recently published its Artsource curriculum resources online. Artsource empowers teachers to present artistic models in dance, theater, and music to their students; integrate the arts with other subject areas; and explore a broad spectrum...

The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards has released the draft Standards for public review. It is very important that the California voice is heard in this process. California has a writer on each of the discipline writing teams but...

When the idea of creating an arts advocacy video was broached, I convened a team of teacher-leaders in the county and discussed what the message of the video would be.   Wanting to address multiple audiences such as school boards, school...

Dr. Monique Chism, Director of Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, addresses the role of arts education within the Title I, Part A program in a letter sent to Title I State Coordinators. Expanding...

Doug Herbert wrote the following on the US Department of Education blog: The arts are an integral part of a well-rounded education, and a recent school survey by the Department revealed that millions of American students, particularly in high-need schools,...