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The CFM Future of Education Tour starts in 2017 in the Southeast!

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week we are pleased to share our own bit of good news: CFM Fellows Sage Morgan-Hubbard and Nicole Ivy announce they are taking their work on the road with The Future of Education Tour. In January 2017, they will set out on the first …
Undoing Adultism in Museum Spaces

By Emily Turner

Adultism is “the everyday, systematic, and institutionalized oppression that young people face at the hands of adults” (Kivel). Denial of political power. Lack of privacy. Physical and emotional abuse. Arbitrary punishments. Rules they did …
Every child is an artist

By Derrick Cameron

“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist” — Pablo Picasso According to a study by the College Board in 2012, required arts instruction in K-12 schools often comes to an end in middle school – the exact moment when …
Electing to value education within museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

In today’s post, Sage Morgan-Hubbard, the Alliance’s Ford. W. Bell Fellow for Museums & P-12 Education, announces the relaunch of our education web site, and the launch of a new blog dedicated to to exploring the future …
Dream Big: the Alliance in an Age of Scale

By Elizabeth Merritt

I want to share with you the Alliance’s vision for how museums could play a major role in filling the need for high-quality, equitable early childhood education in the US. Back in June I blogged about the MacArthur Foundation’s …
Electing to value education within museums

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

I am not going to lie. Like many of us, I am suffering from election anxiety today. As a parent and educator, I see the glaring gaps in our fractured educational system and become frustrated and pessimistic. At the same time, one of the …
Museums & Personalized Learning: Hey Vermont, Wassup?!?!

By Elizabeth Merritt

School started last week for Vermont students, and incoming high school freshmen are going to be exploring a fragment of the future. The class of 2020 will be the first students covered by Vermont Act 77, which mandates personalized …
Future Fiction Challenge Winner!

By Keely Sarr

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Albert Camus once said, “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” Good futurist fiction tells the truth about something that hasn’t …
Exhibit A

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m taking advantage of the late summer lull in blogging to share my personal favorite from last spring’s Future Fiction Challenge, a story submitted by Ken Eklund. It nails so many of the things that make for compelling future …
Monday Musing: Beyond Conformity & Compliance

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s an article I encourage you to read to start your week: Sir Ken Robinson: How to Create a Culture For Valuable Learning (Mind/Shift, KQED News). Sir Ken has been a major inspiration for my work on museums and the future of …