ArtsEd Digest

Volume 1, Issue 11 - August 11, 2009

Welcome to ArtsEd Digest, the new and improved face of the AEP listserv. The ArtsEd Digest is an online publication that allows for the easy access to vital and timely information about arts education from our partners and from the field. It is published twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday. Items for inclusion in the upcoming listserv must be submitted by close of business on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month. For example, items for the Digest to be published on Tuesday, August 25 should be submitted by close of business Friday, August 21.

New from the Arts Education Partnership

New Updates on "Charting a Course for the Arts and 21st Century Learning"!
Keep checking the AEP website for the latest details on the Fall National Forum in Cambridge, MA, “Charting a Course for the Arts and 21st Century Learning.” Regular registration ends on August 31st, so register now to save your spot at this Forum. After August 31st, registration rates increase to $225. A special Forum rate of $169 is available at the beautiful Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. Reserve your room now!

NAEP Arts 2008 – The Nation’s Arts Report Card
New information and documents – including a "Summary of Results", an "FAQ" and "Why You Should Care about the Nation's Report Card and What You Can Do" – are available now in the NAEP Arts Toolkit: http://www.aep-arts.org/NAEP.html.

The following organizations collaborated on the NAEP Arts Assessment Toolkit: Americans for the Arts, Arts Education Partnership, Educational Theatre Association, The League of American Orchestras, MENC: The National Association for Music Education, National Art Education Association, and the Performing Arts Alliance.

U.S. Department of Education 2009-2010 FRSS Arts in Education Surveys

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) are collaborating to conduct seven surveys on arts education in U.S. public schools during the 2009-10 school year. The surveys will be conducted through the NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/), which was used to conduct previous national surveys on arts education in 1999–2000 and 1994-95.

Specifically, a survey will be conducted with:

Elementary school principals
Elementary music specialists
Elementary visual arts specialists
Elementary general classroom teachers
Secondary school principals
Secondary music specialists
Secondary visual arts specialists

In order to minimize respondent burden each survey will only have three pages of questions. Both school-level surveys will be administered beginning in the fall of 2009, while the administration of the teacher-level surveys will begin in January 2010. NCES anticipates releasing initial school-level data results by January 2011 and teacher-level results by June 2011. A larger, more comprehensive report will follow the initial releases and provide combined and detailed findings for all of the surveys, including comparisons between the 1999–2000 and 2009–10.

Contact:
Peter Tice, Ph.D.
Project Officer, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)
National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences
1990 K St., NW, Suite 9033
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 502-7497 (p)
peter.tice@ed.gov

Scholastic ART Magazine Workshop Contest

Would you like to see your students’ work in print? Enter Scholastic Art Magazine’s new workshop competition now.

One winning class and workshop (designed for grades 7-12) will be featured in our April/May 2010 issue (Asian Art Today).
Two winning workshops (designed for grades 4-6) will have their winning workshop featured in the April/May 2010 issue’s elementary teacher’s edition.
All three winning teachers will receive a year-long classroom subscription (30 copies) to Scholastic Art.

To find out more, go to http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/art.htm and click on the contest link or go to http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/popups/art_contest.htm.

University Council of Art Education (UCAE) Symposium

The University Council of Art Education (UCAE) is sponsoring an important symposium: The Future of Arts Education in This Time of Economic and Political Turmoil. UCAE, an organization of national, regional and state visual art education leaders, takes this opportunity to invite the education community to discuss the future of visual arts education.

Keynoters will include James Shelton, assistant deputy secretary of Innovation & Improvement; F. Robert Sabol, National Art Education Association President-elect and Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and Chair of the Division of Art and Design at Purdue University and a national researcher on the impact that No Child Left Behind has had on Arts Education; David Rhodes, President of the School of Visual Arts, Commissioner Emeritus of Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Higher Education, Vice Chair of The Regents Advisory Council on Institutional Accreditation of the State Education Department/The University of the State of New York, Commission for Higher Education and Dennis Fehr, Director of the National Education Taskforce and Associate Professor of Visual Studies, Texas Tech University.

The goal of the Symposium to present an open dialogue on the continuing national standards-based role of the visual arts in education. It will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ruth & Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Friday, September 25, 2009, 1-5 PM. Registration Form is available on UCAE.org under "Events."

This message is from the ArtsEd listserv. ArtsEd hosts discussions and communications for the Arts Education Partnership which demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life and work.

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