A letter from Nancy W. Berry to Vicki Rosenberg about attaching reports from the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts National Specialty Program development grant. Attached documents include a fact sheet, publicity material, surveys and more.

A newsletter of Horace, vol. 12, No. 5 published by The Coalition of Essentials Schools at Brown University. The newsletter is featuring an article on the arts and arts education in regards to school curriculum reformation. Educators understand that the arts provide schools with a powerful alternative model of teaching and learning and they fear that aesthetics, criticism, creation and art history will be "watered down." Teachers use art and arts education to assess students' perceptions, productions and their reflection of artistic learning.

A letter from D. Jack Davis to Maria Cristina Biazus informing Biazus that the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts would like to have art teachers from Brazil to participate in the upcoming Summer Institute. Attached are newsletters from Brazil that outline art education activities and programs that are occurring throughout the country.

An essay written by Dr. Elliot W. Eisner explaining Discipline-Based Art Education and how it defends the place of art in schools. This essay was approved and offered through the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall Semester, 1996, Vol. 7 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Art History: Not Just Art In The Dark," Defining Art History. This newsletters examines art history as being one of the four foundational disciplines of discipline-based art education, along with art production, art criticism and aesthetics. Art history provides the historical context in which all artistic achievement is considered.

A memorandum from Jeff Patchen to Sheila Brown, Vicki Rosenberg, Blanche Rubin, Kim Wheetley, and Joyce Wright dated January 16, 1996. The memo includes reviews of a report titled "Teachers Take Charge" and a book titled "Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching."

A document containing worksheets and agendas for the Summer Institute in Arts Education for the year 2000.