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Dear Louis,
Are you looking for insights, resources and strategies to best address long-standing inequities in education? Sign up for our new "Sparking Equity" podcast, series which we are offering to you in its pilot phase. We go beyond just identifying the issues, but dive into actionable strategies you can use to spark equity in the education system, with a special focus on low-income students and students of color.
It is hosted by renowned education leader and scholar Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education (on preK-12 challenges) and, on the postsecondary level, by Lande Ajose, managing director of the Waverley Street Foundation and former chair of the California Student Aid Commission.
Our first pilot episode is about why we need to restore Arts & Music Education to the school curriculum, with insights from former Hamilton star and actor Daveed Diggs and award-winning actor John Lithgow. Learn about exciting innovations like ArtistYear, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit placing artists in public schools, and a new California initiative which will target nearly $1 billion to support arts education.
Arts learning fosters a kind of engagement that you can't get out of textbooks. – Daveed Diggs
I absolutely know that for a child who is exposed to the arts, it makes them more educable, it makes them more eager to go to school. – John Lithgow
The podcast is a project of Advancing Education Success, a multi-pronged journalism and communications initiative focused on what can and must be done to eliminate educational inequities. It is directed by Louis Freedberg, veteran journalist and former director of EdSource. Pilot episodes made possible by a grant from the Walter and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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