The Arts and Learning: creating Australia's future

If research demonstrates that students who engage in an active, demanding, high-quality arts education are more likely to excel in their academic and non-academic lives, why has the recent review of the Australian Curriculum recommended reducing arts learning in our schools? Speakers include: Professor Michael Anderson (panel chair), Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney; Tom Alegounarias, President of the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW (BOSTES); Rob Carlton, a Silver Logie winning actor; Andrea Connell, the Principal of Sydney Girls High School; Professor Robyn Ewing, Professor of Teacher Education and the Arts at the University of Sydney; Professor Julianne Schultz, founding editor of Griffith REVIEW; and Tamara Winikoff, Executive Director, at the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2014/arts_as_learning_forum.shtml