How do you create a standardised test for art and music? Should you even try? An arts education pilot project in America has been finding out.
It sounded like an ordinary assignment for a visual-arts class: Karen Ladd, a teacher, asked her freshmen at New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional High School to research an artist, create a piece of art inspired by the artist’s work, and then write a reflection about the experience.
Dressed in tank tops and shorts that heralded the arrival of summer weather, some students studied the assignment while others listened to headphones as they browsed for artists online. One girl begged to be allowed to use Bob Ross as her inspiration; another searched determinedly for paintings of bowling to use... Keep reading on The Atlantic
It sounded like an ordinary assignment for a visual-arts class: Karen Ladd, a teacher, asked her freshmen at New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional High School to research an artist, create a piece of art inspired by the artist’s work, and then write a reflection about the experience.
Dressed in tank tops and shorts that heralded the arrival of summer weather, some students studied the assignment while others listened to headphones as they browsed for artists online. One girl begged to be allowed to use Bob Ross as her inspiration; another searched determinedly for paintings of bowling to use... Keep reading on The Atlantic