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Dallas Schools Have Ambitious Plan to Fight Segregation
Originally published on The New York Times Dallas is one of just a handful of cities trying ambitious integration programs, even though nationwide, public schools are more segregated today than they were in 1970. A third of black and Hispanic students attend schools that are more than 90 percent nonwhite, […]
NPR’s This Week In Education: DeVos, Discrimination, Desegregation
New York City announces school integration goals The nation’s largest public school system released a plan this week to increase integration by race, income and English language learner and disability status. But advocates called it less than ambitious, and it didn’t use the word “segregation.” Seventy percent of New York […]
TCG: A Look at How Theaters Have Filled Gaps in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Non-for-profit theatres diversifying the economy In October 2015, the Theatre Communications Group released its thirty-fifth annual research report, Theatre Facts 2014. The report reflects data from the fiscal years 2013/2014 from a broad overview of the estimated 1,770 U.S. professional nonprofit theaters. It shows that contributions have driven the American […]
The Socio-Emotional Benefits of Arts Education
New study examines socio-emotional benefits of arts education Elementary school children who participated in arts education programs showed growth over children without these same opportunities across multiple areas of socioemotional learning. These included: tolerance for others’ perspectives, growth mindset (i.e., the understanding that their abilities and knowledge can develop through hard […]
Education Benefit 2017
Relive the event where the Epic NEXT Youth Company performed Laundry City and The Real America. Epic’s Education Benefit honored our outstanding educational partner from Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts Monday, May 1st, 2017