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Mitt Romney and the Fierce Desire for Educational Change

Randy Turner | Posted 05.24.2012

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Randy Turner

As a teacher who has students write research papers on the American Civil Rights Movement, I was stunned to find out that I am on the wrong side of the great civil rights issue of our time. It has to be true. Mitt Romney says so.

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Connecting The Dots

Ian David Moss | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Nea, Creative Placemaking, Research, Impact, Outcomes, Evaluation, Artplace, The Recessionary Arts, Recessionary Arts, Culture News
Ian David Moss

Much like South Park's Underpants Gnomes, arts projects may have a clear idea of what they're putting into the process and what they hope to get out of it, but a much vaguer sense of how they're going to get from Phase 1 to Phase 3.

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Is Federal Money The Best Way To Fund The Arts?

Posted 05.01.2012

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Is federal funding the best way to fund the arts? The worst? We've asked two experts on opposing sides to argue their case.

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NEA Has No Love For PBS

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

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NEW YORK — The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year. "Live From Linco...

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National Endowment For The Arts Sharply Cuts PBS Grants

The New York Times | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 04.26.2012

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The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significan...

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Art Criticism On Wheels, The Motor City Way

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.21.2012

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When summer dies down and fall arts events pick up, be on the lookout for a brightly painted van roaming Detroit streets: The drivers want to hear wha...

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LOOK: Baldwin, Other Celebrities Head To Capitol Hill To Press Arts Funding Cause

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts. Baldwin and o...

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National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books] Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press

Anis Shivani | Posted 04.12.2012

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Anis Shivani

Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.

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Beloved Arts Programs In Danger!

Posted 04.10.2012

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The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced they were considering cutting federal production aid for PBS Arts series by possibly over $1 mi...

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Dave Jamieson

GOP's Labor Website Infuriates Unions

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Union activists generally don't consider House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to be an ally in labor struggle...

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Why Don't Mary Cheh or Tommy Wells Support $10 Million for D.C. Arts?

Robert Bettmann | Posted 04.29.2012

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Robert Bettmann

Government funding is critically important to local artists and arts organizations, but how much arts funding is the right amount of arts funding?

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Kickstarter Is On Track To Beat The National Endowment For The Arts In Funding

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 02.24.2012

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Fundraising website Kickstarter is on track to beat the National Endowment for the Arts in funding, Talking Points Memo reports. In an exclusive in...

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Emmeline Zhao

Adult Film Proceeds To Go To School Reading Program?

HuffingtonPost.com | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 02.07.2012

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Talk about dirty money. American schools and educational programs might be drowning from lack of funding, but being deep in the red isn't deterring on...

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Military Funding vs. Funding for the Arts: What Does the Difference Say About American Values?

Brendan McMahon | Posted 03.31.2012

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Brendan McMahon

If we as Americans are so willing to grossly over-fund our military and defund our arts, our deepest expression of ourselves both at home and abroad is simply an expression of war.

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APAP 2012: 10 Things the Dance Field Should Be Talking About

Marc Kirschner | Posted 03.10.2012

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Marc Kirschner

By the end of this year, globalization in dance won't be an emerging trend... it will be a permanent state of existence, and every company should be aware of their global positioning, even if they've never toured outside of their home city.

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Matt Damon And Mom Reject Award Nomination

Posted 01.05.2012

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Matt Damon and his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, have declined a nomination for the Friend of Education award from the National Education Association'...

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Can Art Scientifically Help Traumatized Soldiers?

Posted 12.20.2011

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Making art has been a longtime coping mechanism for pain, depression and heartbreak, but now art therapy may finally gain scientific validation as a c...

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First-Ever Taskforce Of 13 Federal Agencies Will Step Up Research On The Arts

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts is forming a task force of 13 federal agencies to foster more research on how the arts affect human...

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Revealing NEA Study On The Artist's Lifestyle

Posted 12.31.2011

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There was a time when becoming an artist meant devoting yourself to a starving, bohemian lifestyle, sleeping on a futon and burning your rejected work...

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Dennis Van Roekel: The NEA Plan For Teacher Accountability

| Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 11.20.2011

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This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation’s The Learning Curve blog. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, w...

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An Abbreviated Story of Labor: What Once Was but Is No More

Jeanne Allen | Posted 11.04.2011

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Jeanne Allen

This Labor Day, let's resolve to change the system that once was needed but is no more. All of our great labors day in and day out aside, our schools and public institutions need the right to put results and effort first.

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Amanda Terkel

WATCH: Progressive Groups Launch Debt Ceiling Ad Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- With the nation less than a week away from the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling, a group of progressive and labor organizations...

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In Dance News: It's A Matter of Place

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 09.14.2011

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Jennifer Edwards

This has been an exciting week for three dance organizations -- and there is a common and unlikely thread that ties their accomplishments together: geography.

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Let Me Tell You About Teach for America

Shaun Johnson | Posted 09.10.2011

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Shaun Johnson

I'm trying to be sincere when I question TFA. I just can't see its long-term benefits to education and the teaching profession. Even as a short-term stopgap measure in high-needs areas, I think it's doing more harm to teaching than good.

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NEA Endorses Obama's Bid for Second Term

The Wall Street Journal | Stephanie Bancero | Posted 09.03.2011

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CHICAGO —The nation's largest teachers union voted Monday to endorse President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid, despite teachers' widespread unh...

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