College & Career Readiness

Posts about college and career readiness

Why STEM Education Needs the Arts - from WNYC's The Takeaway

Jan 23, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

       (Image by Vex Robotics/flickr)   On Tuesday, January 15, WNYC's The Takeaway, hosted by John Hockenberry, discussed the importance of evolving STEM into STEAM. The radio progrom featured guest speakers: President of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda and Reporter for the Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rob Manning. Listen to it now.                                      

Creating Rigorous Arts Lessons Across the Content Areas

Jan 22, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

This article is from 2010, but I recenlty read it and I am a big fan of Jane Remer after meeting her for lunch last month. She is an expert in arts integration and arts in education and is still making waves with her critical analysis of education programs and policy.  Click here for the article at Education Update.