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Abstract: The North Texas Regional Institute For Educators On The Visual Arts

Description: An abstract for the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, with the intention of inviting corporations and private foundations in North Texas to join with the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the University of North Texas to innovate and implement a education reform for discipline-based arts. The abstract goes into details about what NTIEVA hopes to achieve through their program, wanting to tackle visual literacy, critical criticism and language among elementary… more
Date: November 27, 1989
Creator: North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts

Fort Worth Fifth-Graders Give Full Treatment To Art Class

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article about teacher, Georiga Blaydes and her fifth-grade class room of students undergoing the experimental discipline-based art education program. The students have become as serious about art criticism as professional critics. Changes in art curriculum are being implemented statewide as part of a package of sweeping education reforms approved by the Texas Legislature in 1981. In the article, Ms. Blaydes has been working with the University of North … more
Date: November 10, 1989

In Pittsburgh: New Approaches to Testing Track Arts 'Footprints'

Description: A newsletter, Education Week, American Education's Newspaper of Record, Editorial Projects in Education, Vol. 8, No. 11. Featuring an article, "In Pittsburgh: New Approaches to Testing Track Arts 'Footprints'." 7th grade violinist listen to two versions of "Chop Sticks" and are asked to write about what was good or bad about the performances, what could be better and how the ensemble can improve it. The exercise is part of an experiment research program in music, visual arts and creative writi… more
Date: November 16, 1988
Creator: Olson, Lynn

The Indiana Fine Arts Diagnostic Achievement Tests

Description: A document on the Indiana Fine Arts Diagnostic Achievement Tests, The Getty Center for Education in the Arts Student Assessment Meeting. The Indiana Fine Arts Diagnostic Achievement Testing program began in 1987 as a means to provide art teachers with new tools from which to measure student achievement in visual arts, music, theatre/creative drama and dance/creative movement. The purpose of the testing program is also to create / develop new tools to diagnose student and class strengths or need… more
Date: [1989-11-04,1989-11-06]
Creator: Patchen, Jeffrey H.

[Letter from Linus Wright to Jack Davis, November 26, 1986]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Linus Wright, Superintendent of Dallas ISD, to Jack Davis, Vice Provost at North Texas State University. Wright thanks for Davis letter of November 14, 1986, concerning a proposed Metroplex Regional Institute for Educations on the Visual Arts, "North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts," and he accepts their invitation of Dallas ISD's participation in the proposal institute.
Date: November 26, 1986
Creator: Wright, Linus
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