The Dallas Morning News
In a Q&A, the Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director calls for public schools in America’s big cities to end the marginalization of arts, which he says should be a central feature of any young person’s education. “The arts are increasingly being reduced or eliminated as budgets become tighter and there is an increased emphasis on empirical testing to determine student achievement,” Kevin Moriarty says. “For those concerned about the future of humanities in American civic life, those are alarming trends.” Dallas’ Wallace-supported effort to boost arts education by harnessing the resources of a number of organizations, including arts groups, is “closer to getting it right than almost any other major city,” Moriarty says. But, he adds, there is still a long way to go.
Read The Dallas Morning News article about arts education.