On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

Arts and Culture;Education and Literacy

On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

In 2008 the Alaska State Council on the Arts collaborated with the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and the Alaska School Administrators Association to conduct a statewide, comprehensive survey to look what is happening with the arts in our schools.

This first-of-its-kind study was designed to provide useful, baseline data to policy makers, district administrators, parents, teachers, University faculty, business leaders, arts advocates arts organizations and the Alaska community at large. This report dramatically illustrates that there is much to do, to ensure that the #1 goal for all Alaskan students - access to high quality arts experiences as a basic component of their K -- 12 education -- is truly met.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / Alaska

On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

Arts and Culture;Education and Literacy

On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

In 2008 the Alaska State Council on the Arts collaborated with the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and the Alaska School Administrators Association to conduct a statewide, comprehensive survey to look what is happening with the arts in our schools.

This first-of-its-kind study was designed to provide useful, baseline data to policy makers, district administrators, parents, teachers, University faculty, business leaders, arts advocates arts organizations and the Alaska community at large. This report dramatically illustrates that there is much to do, to ensure that the #1 goal for all Alaskan students - access to high quality arts experiences as a basic component of their K -- 12 education -- is truly met.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / Alaska

On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

Arts and Culture;Education and Literacy

On Thin Ice: Arts Education in Alaska Schools

In 2008 the Alaska State Council on the Arts collaborated with the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and the Alaska School Administrators Association to conduct a statewide, comprehensive survey to look what is happening with the arts in our schools.

This first-of-its-kind study was designed to provide useful, baseline data to policy makers, district administrators, parents, teachers, University faculty, business leaders, arts advocates arts organizations and the Alaska community at large. This report dramatically illustrates that there is much to do, to ensure that the #1 goal for all Alaskan students - access to high quality arts experiences as a basic component of their K -- 12 education -- is truly met.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / Alaska

Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century

Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor

Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century

When it comes to public-sector pensions, writes lead author Michael B. Lafferty in this report, "A major public-policy (and public-finance) problem has been defined and measured, debated and deliberated, but not yet solved. Except where it has been." As recounted in "Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century", these exceptions turn out to be revealing -- and encouraging.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-Utah, North America-United States (Western)-Alaska, North America-United States (Midwestern)-Michigan, North America-United States (Midwestern)-Missouri

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