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Sanctuary in Harmony: How Music is Saving Lives in LA

Lucia Brawley | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home

Read More: LA Philharmonic, White House, Margaret Martin, Michelle Obama, Community-Marketing-Blog-Off, Gustavo Dudamel, Arts Education, Harmony Project, Home News
Lucia Brawley

REPRINTED FROM THE COMMUNITY MARKETING BLOG-OFF, first published December 2, 2009. Please click on that site and comment there to help me win the cont...

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What Artists Could Teach Goldman Sachs

Ruth Sherman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Leadership, Goldman Sachs, Education, Elliot W. Eisner, Public Relations, Arts, Stanford University, Education Reform, Arts Education, Communication, Business News
Ruth Sherman

As Goldman Sachs may be discovering, belatedly and to its chagrin, image matters. Perception is reality. Therefore, if we want business and government to do better by us, we need more arts education, not less.

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I Like Art (and Art Education) But

Alan Singer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Yankees, Arts, Education, Education Reform, Arts Education, Michael Bloomberg, New York News
Alan Singer

Claims made in a recent report by the Center for Arts Education crediting the arts in school with promoting higher graduation rates are an exaggeration and misleading.

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Our Ambivalence With the Arts Makes Bad Education and Economic Policy

Dylan Kendall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Poverty, Economy, Arts Education, Creative Technologies, No Child Left Behind, Army, Hollywood, Usc, Living News
Dylan Kendall

No Child Left Behind, which bases educational success on reading and math testing, leaves little time for arts education, first in California and now in the nation at large.

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A Magical Night of Music and Another Triumph for Toronto: The Grand Opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Anton Kuerti, Classical Music Reviews, Toronto Mendelsson Choir, Beethoven’s Fifth, Music Education, Peter Simon, Acoustics, Michael Koerner, Music, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Culture, R. Murray Schafer, Classical Music, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Young-Classical-Musicians, Radio, Globe and Mail, Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Glenn Gould, Koerner Hall, Emerging-Classical-Musicians, Arts Education, Grammy-Nominees, Telus, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

Friday night's grand opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall proved that Toronto has truly become one of the world's top cities for the performing arts.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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My Visit to Kalamazoo

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Kalamazoo, Arts in Crisis, Arts Education, John F. Kennedy Center, Arts Funding, Entertainment News
Michael Kaiser

Next time any government official in Washington or elsewhere says that the arts are elitist or that everyday people don't care about the arts, I am going to suggest they visit Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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One Approach to Reducing Health Care Costs: The Discipline of Dance

Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Ballet Theater, Make a Ballet, Chance to Dance, Royal Ballet, Ballet, Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Health Care, Arts Education, Aileycamp, Politics News
Michael Kaiser

Children who dance are far more likely to appreciate their own physical selves. Dance training helps address the obesity problem currently facing our nation.

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Any Given Child

Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Arts, At-Risk Youth, Any Given Child, Arts Education, Kennedy Center, Living News
Michael Kaiser

Arts education is particularly important at this juncture in our economic history. With manufacturing jobs evaporating, we need more than ever to train our children to be creative, problem-solving members of our economy.

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A Twa Lala -- Play a Song: My Keynote Address at the Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music

Lucia Brawley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Music, Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Teachers, Arts Education, Yale, Yale School of Music, u.s. Department of Education, Living News
Lucia Brawley

On June 10, 2009, it was my great honor to deliver the keynote address at the Yale School of Music's biennial Music Educators Symposium.

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Arts in Crisis

Michael Kaiser | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Art, Arts, Recession Fears, Marketing, Arts Funding, Arts Education, Performance, Arts in the Recession, Politics News
Michael Kaiser

American arts organizations are threatened, but it is not the economy that poses the largest threat.

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It's Art's Time

Steven Weber | Posted 07.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Art, Arts Education, Bailouts, Style News
Steven Weber

Officially marginalized in our schools and practically vestigial in the anatomy of our systems of education and business, art -- its creation and enjoyment -- is in need of rediscovery.

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Arts Education in America

Quincy Jones | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jfk Jr, Arts, Globalization, Cultural History, Celebrities Talk Politics, Music, Jazz, George Magazine, Arts Education, Entertainment News
Quincy Jones

Can we really run the risk of becoming a culturally bankrupt nation because we have not inserted a curriculum into our educational institutions that will teach and nurture creativity in our children?

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Part I - Why Arts Education is a Matter of Social Justice and Why it will Save the World

Lucia Brawley | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Children, Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Wynton Marsalis, Barack Obama, Arts Education, Politics News
Lucia Brawley

Inspired by countless examples of the vital importance of the arts in shaping young lives, I have made my way into rooms with some of the country's foremost arts educators and arts education advocates.

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Why Art Matters

Mary Boone | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Art, Artwork, Paintings, Works of Art, Public Art, Museums, Sculpture, Painting, Arts Education, Style News
Mary Boone

Art matters because looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture gives us an experience that nothing else can.

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Arts Community to Obama: Here's What We're Fighting For

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Art, Nonprofits, Arts, Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Barack Obama, Arts Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, Obama Arts, Living News
Randall Bourscheidt

We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.

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