A newsletter, Education Week, American Education's Newspaper of Record, Editorial Projects in Education, Vol. 8, No. 11. Featuring an article, "In Pittsburgh: New Approaches to Testing Track Arts 'Footprints'." 7th grade violinist listen to two versions of "Chop Sticks" and are asked to write about what was good or bad about the performances, what could be better and how the ensemble can improve it. The exercise is part of an experiment research program in music, visual arts and creative writing by Harvard University's Project Zero, the Educational Testing Services and Pittsburgh Public Schools known as Arts Propel.

A newsletter, Educational Leadership, Opening Up Assessment by Dennie Palmer Wolf. From students' projects, portfolios, and interviews, Pittsburgh art teachers participating in Arts Propel are learning to "read" students' growth in learning. Arts Propel is a three-way collaborative project to look at what the arts teach and how the arts teachers examine their students. The newsletter is updated with information on the arts propel project and the research behind arts education.

A Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 22, No. Artistic Learning: What and Where Is It? by Dennie Palmer Wolf. The journal has two pictures of student work that was made twelve years apart and a series of questions that about the altered roles of the final productions. The prints and questions come from an intensive study of artistic thinking known as Arts Propel. Propel is a collaboration between research and educators to assess artistic development.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about Fort Worth ISD being high in art education grades. The article goes into the fact that arts education has been around since the 1950s but there never has been such an interest until now, art education is being re-examined. Art is being viewed as important to all students as a means of enchaining learning and other disciplines such as math and science. The article continues into the hard work that Getty Center and the education reformation program has undergone to see changes in the schools curriculum.

A paper by Karen A. Hamblen presented to the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco, CA between April 16 and April 20, 1986, containing information about art criticism.

Improving Instruction in Visual Arts Education program, a National Diffusion Network Project funded by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Included in the program is a daily schedule for Art Education Consultants' seminar July 24 - 29, 1989. Also enclosed in the program is a summary of the theory and practice of discipline-based art education.

A document containing an overview of the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts' Curriculum, Instructional, and Resource Materials Committee and a report with 8 appendices. Table of contents appears on the third page.

Art Education: Creative Birthright by Fran Bolte, Nancy Reynolds, Kelly Spragins, Pam Stephens and Donna Stovall. The document opens up with a statement on human beings around the world are inherently creative, capable of reflecting ideas, values and emotions but brings up the question as to why so many in society lose this creative birthright into the adulthood. It is because of the rush to reform education and how creativity is often left behind. The document details why art and art education is important to the children and to the public school system.

An article, Art Expression, Art Skills, and Continued Artistic Development of Children by Michael Day. Literature in the field of Art Education has distinguished to three domains of art learning, critical domain which refers to the individuals response to art, the making of critical judgement and the ability to discus art with others. The cultural or historical domain, refers to the knowledge and understanding that surround a work of art within the milieu. The productive domain, refers to the making of art objects. Day's article, he'll focuses on the productive domain and the creative mediums of artwork.

A newsletter, Educational Leadership, Vol. 46, No. 7. Portfolio Assessment: Sampling Student Work, When students maintain portfolios of their work, they learn to assess their own progress as learners, and teachers gain new views of their accomplishments in teaching. A consortia of administrators, teachers and researchers in the Pittsburgh schools have been searching for alternatives to standardized assessments. A three-way collaborative project, Arts Propel, is composed of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Educational Testing Services and Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education to demonstrate that it is possible to asses the thinking in arts and humanities.