File puptcrit/puptcrit.0501, message 175


Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:59:43 -0500
From: Elizabeth Freeman <lindentree85-AT-comcast.net>
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] schools 2000, fewer teaching artists


> What Monica said below is so true...Not only has "No Child Left 
> Behind" impacting the arts, but science, social studies, music, recess 
> etc. etc.    Actually at my urban, bilingual school ,   even my 
> reading and math program-- that NCLB is suppose to improve--has been 
> negatively affected by policies.    A very frustrated teacher and 
> member of P of A.    Liz in Massachusetts

>         Nowadays, it seems fewer and fewer schools are able to 
> incorporate
> this type of residency.  Along with No Child Left Behind (ha!), many
> schools can afford neither the time nor the money.  The trend has been
> towards (a) shorter residencies 1-3 days) and (b) so-called "Arts
> Partnerships", in which an artist partners with a school, going in 
> from time
> to time and working on specific curriculum related arts projects. 
> .......Monica
> Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre
> http://www.puppetspuppets.com
>
>

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