Annual Reports of Foundations (open access)

Annual Reports of Foundations

A newsletter clipping, with details on the DeWitt Wallace-Redaer's Digest Fund. The purpose of the support fund is the improvement of elementary and secondary schools, encouraging school and community collaborations, and the professional development of educators. Another clipping is attached to the first on, "Principals As Staff Developers," John Macrostie states that inservice education can no longer consist of irregular episodic workshops but must be continuous.
Date: June 28, 1994
Creator: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Art of Teaching] (open access)

[The Art of Teaching]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the Pilot Point and Denton independent school districts being two in the state of Texas to be selected for the implementation of Discipline-based art education or DBAE. The five-year program, is part of the reform movement in the art world in which four basic art disciplines are integrated, art history, art criticism, art production and aesthetics. Another article features is "Denton school participates in art program," which describes the success of the children learning with the discipline art program.
Date: December 28, 1990
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eastern Hills Elementary Events (open access)

Eastern Hills Elementary Events

A clipping from the Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News, featuring a snippet on Mrs. Suzi Reid, art teacher at Eastern Hills Elementary helping her students put up touches on a classroom projects, a thumb print tree.
Date: September 28, 1995
Creator: Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Newspaper clippings] (open access)

[Newspaper clippings]

Newspaper clippings featuring articles about Plano Independent School District supporting art programs, in the first article "School board OKs art plan," many parents called the school board in support of the school art program and following such PISD will hire five art specialist at $33,000 a year to augment art education. In the continuing article "PISD to hire art specialists," the school will be participating in two summer programs by the Getty Foundation to teach the faculty how to fully use the new concepts to tackle art education.
Date: June 28, 1989
Creator: News Star Courier
System: The UNT Digital Library
NT honors art director with fine arts doctorate (open access)

NT honors art director with fine arts doctorate

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, by presenting him with an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. Dr. Pillsbury received his art history degree from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, but his outstanding support of the arts in North Texas deserved him recognition.
Date: March 28, 1996
Creator: Connolly, Christine
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Plano Star Courier articles, 1989-06-28 (open access)

[Plano Star Courier articles, 1989-06-28

A series of article clippings from the Plano Star Courier written by Curtis Howell that covers the new Plano ISD art program. The plan is to hire art specialists that will visit each school and aid in classroom learning.
Date: June 28, 1989
Creator: Howell, Curtis
System: The UNT Digital Library