Arts in education? Tell Obama, “No Duncan in a second term.”
Last week we received an email from my department chair with a link to a speech Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave at a Washington DC elementary school on April 2nd.
It is deeply disturbing that all students do not have access to arts education today.
These survey findings suggest that more than 1.3 million students in elementary school fail today to get any music instruction–and the same is true for about 800,000 secondary school students. All told, nearly four million elementary school students do not get any visual arts instruction at school during their formative learning years.
That means those children are not learning to play the recorder. They are not
