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NDEO is currently working on several advocacy initiatives with arts, education, and government groups. These initiatives include the drafting of policy recommendations, strategic planning for arts education advocacy efforts, standards reform, and targeted meetings with law and policy makers on Capitol Hill. NDEO encourages its members to learn about these initiatives, use this information to support their own endeavors, and join us in the cause!
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Arts Education Partnership: Legislative Affairs Working Group
NDEO representatives sit on the AEP: Legislative Affairs Working Group which meets bi-monthly to draft policy and language recommendations for legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). (The ESEA was well known under the Bush administration as No Child Left Behind and in the Clinton administration as Goals 2000: Educate America Act.) To download the current issues associated with the reauthorization of ESEA, click here.
To read the 2010 Unified Statement on arts education and ESEA reauthorization, click here.
To read the just released AEP Toolkit regarding recently released data on access to arts education in U.S. schools from the latest Fast Response System Survey (FRSS), click here.
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Americans for the Arts: Arts Advocacy Day
NDEO is a co-sponsor of Arts Advocacy Day and works closely with Americans for the Arts to develop advocacy training materials and legislative recommendations that are utilized by participants during the events.
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Join NDEO in advocating for dance education in the arts - register for Arts Advocacy Day now! |
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Arts Advocacy Day is an event held annually in Washington DC that brings together arts advocates and cultural and civic organizations from across the country to encourage Congress to support strong public policies and appropriate increased public funding for the arts. Participants learn strategies for lobbying congress, network with fellow advocates on the state and national level, and visit members of Congress to make the case for the arts and arts education.
To read NDEO's 2013 letter to Congress regarding the need for quality dance education, click here.
To read NDEO's 2013 Field at a Glance for dance education, click here.
Each year, NDEO works with other national arts organizations to prepare legislative priorities and information for Congress. To view the 2013 arts education legislative priorities, click here. To view all 2013 legislative priorities and download the Congressional Arts Handbook for 2013, click here.
To download past letters disseminated to Congressional leaders regarding the overall status of dance arts education in the United States and the need for quality dance programs in US education, click here. To download fact sheets that were left with Congressional leaders that provide research data and illuminate the importance of dance research in US education, click here.
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ESEA Reauthorization: NDEO Urges Department of Education to Include Arts Education
Congress has begun discussing reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). NDEO has emphasized to congressional leaders and the Obama administration the importance of including strong dance education in the arts in the law. To
read NDEO's legislative suggestions to the Department of Education, click here.
In 2010, President Obama formally urged Congress to proceed with reauthorization of ESEA. On January 20, 2010, the Department of Education held a
stakeholders meeting specifically on the issue of arts education. NDEO
representatives attended the forum to join with other arts education
advocates in calling for important reforms in ESEA reauthorization. To read a summary of all suggestions submitted by Arts Education stakeholders in attendance, click here.
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Multidisciplinary Multimedia Programs Document Review
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS!
The Council of Arts Accrediting Associations (CAAA) has released a the draft document "Basic Organizational Concepts: Multidisciplinary Multimedia in Higher Education" for comment. The document is intended as support for local administrators as they consider issues of multidisciplinary multimedia. The initial comment period closed March 31, 2011. At that time, comments are shared with the authoring commission at the CAAA for revision. The National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD) has invited your comments on the document. Specific suggestions for text changes, additions, or deletions are especially welcome. Click here to access document.
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NDEO Joins with Education Organizations to Call on Obama Administration to Support a Well-Rounded Education
NDEO has signed on to a call from educational organizations of all disciplines to the Obama Administration to support a well-rounded education for every child. The consensus document asks for equal recognition of the importance of all core academic subjects (including the arts) as well as physical education and health education in a comprehensive education to prepare students for college, career and citizenship. To read the "Consensus Recommendations for a Well-Rounded Education," click here.
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Arts Groups Draft 21st Century Skills Map for the Arts
Arts groups joined together last Fall to create a skills map for dance, theatre, visual arts and music. NDEO representatives helped craft the PR document for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills to talk to corporate America about the value of arts in education and why arts must be kept in whole child's educational experience. To read the press release, click here.
NDEO will be developing a more in depth 21st Century Skills Map for dance.
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NDEO Helps Launch Development of National Expectations for Learning in the Arts
On May 11 and 12, 2010, the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) convened an Arts Education Task Force of its content, community, and cultural partners in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The purpose of this convening was to reach consensus on the next leverage point in the initiative titled National Expectations for Learning in Arts Education, formally adopted by the SEADAE membership at its October 2009 meeting in Cambridge. NDEO Executive Director Jane Bonbright, Program Director Rima Faber, and Legislative Affairs Representative Karen Bradley were there to represent Dance. Representatives from arts and education national associations in Music, the Visual Arts and Theater were also in attendance. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information go to www.seadae.org.
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TAKE ACTION: Join Discussion on the Future of Dance Education with NDEO!
NDEO is taking part in a new online
national project about the future of the arts. NDEO is one of more than 20
national arts service organizations and peer groups that have crafted short Green Papers envisioning the future of their disciplines or fields. Over the next year, NDEO's Betsy Loikow will lead online discussion on the Future of Dance Education in an online blog hosted by Americans for the Arts. NDEO invites you to take this opportunity to provide your own insight by reading
the Green Paper, following the related online discussions, and providing
comments and suggestions throughout 2010.
NDEO wants to hear from the field what you feel are the most pressing issues and how we can work together for the future of dance education!
To join the conversation, click here.
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NDEO Petitions the Department of Education to Include Arts Education in Education Reform
Thank you to everyone who submitted their comments to the Department of Education on behalf of arts education!
Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), billions of dollars are available to the states for educational reform through the Race to the Top (RTTT) Fund. The current proposed guidelines for allocating this $4.35 billion dollar fund favor proposals that promote a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum. NDEO is working to protect the well-rounded education of children by reminding the Department of Education that arts education is an essential part of the core curriculum. We must prioritize STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS and Mathematics), not STEM. To read the current RTTT Proposed Priorities, click here. To read NDEO's comments to Secretary Arne Duncan on the Race to the Top Fund, click here.
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The College Board: The National Task Force on the Arts in Education
NDEO belongs to the College Board's National Task Force on the Arts in Education and has been active in helping shape the strategic goals of this national task force. To download a summary of the goals set forth by the steering committee, click here.
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The Council of Chief State School Officers: State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards-Arts |
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NDEO works with the CCSSO's State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards-Arts (SCASS-Arts) on assessments in all the arts. NDEO focuses on the development, deployment, and field training for dance assessments. To download the CCSSO's recently published Arts Assessment Glossary, click here. To download the CCSSO's recently published SCASS-Arts Bibliography for arts assessment resources, click here.
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Arts Policy in the Obama Administration
NDEO and twenty arts organizations communicated with the Obama transition team in re-imagining how the federal government can inspire and support creativity in the nation. To download the arts group transition statement, click here.
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