At the head of its class (open access)

At the head of its class

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on children from Forest Hill Elementary School at the head of their class with high grades in arts education. 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.
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 1995] (open access)

[Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 1995]

A clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Arts & Entertainment section. It covers an upcoming movie on KERA and a student learning from Ron Tomlinson, a painter, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Date: April 13, 1995
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Post-Signal article, April 18, 1991] (open access)

[The Post-Signal article, April 18, 1991]

A clipping of an article from The Post-Signal about NTIEVA speaking at Pilot Point Chamber of Commerce's quarterly breakfast meeting. There are pictures included by David Lewis.
Date: April 18, 1991
Creator: The Post-Signal
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Denton Record-Chronicle clipping, April 14, 1994] (open access)

[Denton Record-Chronicle clipping, April 14, 1994]

A clipping from the newspaper the Denton Record-Chronicle covering a performance by students from the Sam Houston Elementary School for the new Tomas Rivera Elementary School. It will be a living art presentation featuring Hispanic Artists.
Date: April 14, 1994
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The North Texas Daily clipping, April 17, 1991] (open access)

[The North Texas Daily clipping, April 17, 1991]

A clipping from The North Texas Daily newspaper written by Lisa Kawecki about the NTIEVA program's upcoming Summer Institute. It covers DBAE and how to apply it in a classroom setting.
Date: April 17, 1991
Creator: Kawecki, Lisa
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Arts & Entertainment, April 9, 1995] (open access)

[Arts & Entertainment, April 9, 1995]

A clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Arts & Entertainment section. The article features the Barton Hill Elementary School and the teacher Carolyn Sherburn and covers the topic of funding cuts to the arts.
Date: April 9, 1995
Creator: Fort worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Denton Record Chronicle, Vol. 91, No. 247, April 6, 1995] (open access)

[Denton Record Chronicle, Vol. 91, No. 247, April 6, 1995]

A clipping from an article written by Jessica DeLeon for the Denton Record-Chronicle. The article covers Janet Harreld's resignation from her position as the executive director of the Greater Denton Arts Council.
Date: April 6, 1995
Creator: DeLeon, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Life and Arts, April 24, 1995] (open access)

[Life and Arts, April 24, 1995]

A clipping from an article written by Janet Tyson for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's 'Life & Arts' section. The article covers the changes that the Amon Carter Museum is making to improve their collections.
Date: April 24, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The North Texas Daily, April 5, 1995] (open access)

[The North Texas Daily, April 5, 1995]

A clipping from The North Texas Daily that was written by Amir Alobaidi about Bader Alruwais who received the Price Bandar ibn Sultan Annual Award for Cultural and Scientific Research. The article also features a quick history of Alruwais' previous education.
Date: April 5, 1995
Creator: Alobaidi, Amir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bedford school explores the art of learning (open access)

Bedford school explores the art of learning

An article written by A. Lee Graham, Staff Writer for the Dallas Morning News, titled "Bedford school explores the art of learning." The article is about Shady Brook Elementary school in Bedford, Texas, as one of the six North Texas schools in the program "Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge," to receive a share of the $200,000 grant funding for the next five years.
Date: April 26, 1998
Creator: Graham, A. Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big grant Boost arts (open access)

Big grant Boost arts

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Jack Davis, who is the dean of the School of Visual arts. Davis hopes that a $4.3 million dollar grant will show public schools that an education based on the arts increases student achievements in all fields. Davis is also co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, an art education consortium, whose belief is that visual image is a powerful learning tool.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Huckabay, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts council's executive director resigns (open access)

Arts council's executive director resigns

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Greater Denton Arts Council asking Janet Harreld, the executive director, to resign from her position after one year. GDAC president, Roni Beasley, said that Harreld resigned for personal reasons, however, Harreld said the board asked her to resign because of philosophical and managerial differences and did not give an elaborate explanation.
Date: April 6, 1995
Creator: DeLeon, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
Houston pupils honor Rivera school tonight (open access)

Houston pupils honor Rivera school tonight

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Sam Houston Elementary school students dedicating a program to Tomas Rivera Elementary school which is under construction. Performers will re-enact scenes from the lives of Hispanic artists and will become "living arts."
Date: April 14, 1994
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Spreading the word] (open access)

[Spreading the word]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article written about representatives of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts speaking during the Pilot Point Chamber of Commerce's quarterly meeting. William "Bill" McCarter and Cassandra Broadus explained how the program is working in Pilot Point schools.
Date: April 18, 1991
Creator: The Post-Signal
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT to work with area schools in national arts experiment (open access)

UNT to work with area schools in national arts experiment

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the University of North Texas partnering with the Annenberg Foundation, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, the National Arts Education Consortium to bring six metroplex elementary schools and thirty others nationwide in a $15 million experiment for education reform. The five-year grant will provide professional development, implementation of arts curricula and school reform strategies.
Date: April 2, 1997
Creator: In House
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Visual Arts] (open access)

[Visual Arts]

A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on the current projects at the University of North Texas. Six North Texas elementary schools were selected to participate in the nationwide $15 million Arts Partner Schools project. Each school will receive $25,000 - $35,000 annually for five years that cove teacher training, curriculum development, and testing to see if a comprehensive cross curricular approach to teaching visual arts has a positive effect on childhood education.
Date: April 6, 1997
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT takes program to Metroplex schools (open access)

UNT takes program to Metroplex schools

A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the University of North Texas and their education reform program developed by staff William McCarter and Jack Davis. The education reform program is an experiment on the children in their classrooms by teaching them different methods of arts education. McCarter states that research has shown that arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tapping into higher-level thinking skills and that art makes a measurable difference in test scores. The funding, worth up to $15 million will be divided into thirty-six schools, six in Texas, to receive up to $35,000 in funding services for five years.
Date: April 22, 1997
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
System: The UNT Digital Library
NT student receives "Prince Bandar" award citing his innovative approach to teaching (open access)

NT student receives "Prince Bandar" award citing his innovative approach to teaching

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Bader Alruwais of Saudi Arabia, a Denton graduate student who has received the Prince Bandar ibn Sultan Annual Award for Cultural and Scientific Research. Alruwais who has been studying at UNT for two years, won the award, a cash prize and an audience with the Prince for his proposal of an approach to teaching art inside Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 5, 1995
Creator: Alobaidi, Amir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Well-rounded educational pie includes the arts (open access)

Well-rounded educational pie includes the arts

A newspaper clipping featuring an article written by Renee Schafer about her son, Evan coming home from school enthusiastic about something he learned in music class. It got Schafer thinking about how her son's school district has considered down-sizing their arts department due to funding being low, and most administrators believe art and music is fluff. Schafer challenges this notion by stating that her sons music exercise helped him understand fractions.
Date: April 20, 1993
Creator: Schafer, Renee
System: The UNT Digital Library
NT Institute to sponsor art program for teachers (open access)

NT Institute to sponsor art program for teachers

A newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts conduct its 1991 summer institute on art education June 17 - 28. More than one-hundred educators, teachers, art supervisors, principals, museum educators, and graduate students are expected to attend. NTIEVA is one of the six institutes in the nation funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation with a goal to bring discipline-based art education into public schools to improve visual literacy.
Date: April 17, 1991
Creator: The North Texas Daily
System: The UNT Digital Library
At the Crossroads: Museum plans big changes while keeping its commitment to art (open access)

At the Crossroads: Museum plans big changes while keeping its commitment to art

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on struggles the Amon Carter Museum faces by dealing with the declining resources. The Amon Carter Museum is also looking to replace, former museum director Jan Muhlert, who abruptly resigned. Museum officials have discussed for several months what to do to carry the museum to a new stage.
Date: April 24, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The force behind the Kimbell (open access)

The force behind the Kimbell

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Kay and Ben Fortson. Kay Carter Forston is president of the private nonprofit foundation that funds and governs the Kimbell, along with her husband independent oilman Ben J. Fortson being the vice president and chief financial officer. During the Kimbell Art Museum's opening in October 1972, they were worried they didn't have enough definitive artwork to fill the museum.
Date: April 11, 1993
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas institute for visual arts garners a grant (open access)

North Texas institute for visual arts garners a grant

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 24, 1996
Creator: Webb, Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual arts institute receives grant (open access)

Visual arts institute receives grant

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Elliott, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library