Annenberg Challenge Publications

The Annenberg Institute
for School Reform has published a collection of essays and a report
of interest to arts educators.

Research Perspectives
on School Reform

Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge

A collection of essays
written by project directors and local evaluators at seven of the
project sites, the volume offers a unique, inside view of what the
projects set out to do and how the partnerships between Challenge
research and program staffs at the sites helped clarify and refocus
the work over time. The volume features an introduction by Brenda
Turnbull of Policy Studies Associates, who collected and edited
the essays and a preface by Annenberg Institute Executive Director
Warren Simmons and Deputy Director Michael Grady.

The New York City Annenberg
Challenge for Arts Education is featured in the first essay, Chapter
1: Evolution in Tandem: Development and Research in an Arts Education
Program, which was written by The Center for Arts Education’s
Director of Programs, Greg McCaslin, and former Executive Director,
Hollis Headrick, with Terry Baker from the Education Development
Center/Center for Children & Technology. Also of interest is
the essay on Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge,
or TETAC, in Chapter
4: Balancing Summative and Formative Evaluation: New Partnerships,
New Evaluation Models.

Download the entire collection by chapter in PDF format.

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The Arts and School
Reform

Lessons and Possibilities from the Annenberg Challenge Arts Projects

The Arts and School
Reform report draws overarching lessons from the work of the
three Challenge Arts projects: The Center for Arts Education in
New York City, the Minneapolis Arts
for Academic Achievement program, and the national Transforming
Education Through the Arts Challenge. This Annenberg
Institute publication offers insights from arts education for
school reform practitioners (build reform from within; make excellence
equitable) and lessons from standards-based reform for arts educators
(rethink accountability; begin with permanence in mind). AISR Director
of Opportunity and Accountability Dennie Palmer Wolf researched
and prepared the report.

Download the entire report in PDF format.

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