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My High School Is in a Museum

By Andrew Farke

Followers of this blog will know I am a huge fan of museum schools. TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure, the most recent CFM report, devotes one chapter to exploring how museums serve as essential pillars of education, in some …
For Your Radar: The National Association of Museum Schools

By Katherine Kelbaugh

When invited to make a statement I’d like to be true in the future, I often offer a vision of America in which “any child can choose to go to school in a museum.” Today’s guest post by Katherine Kelbaugh shares progress towards my …
“My Primary School is at the Museum…During the Pandemic”

By Elizabeth Merritt

One challenge facing communities around the globe is providing safe spaces where children can continue their education as normally as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, Labour party leader Keir Starmer recently called for …
Selling When We Should Be Investing

By Thomas Leischner

When I was a classroom teacher, I assumed that a field trip would never be worth it: not worth the money my school didn’t have, nor the time I didn’t have, nor the learning my students would lose by missing a day of school. This imagined …
The American Alliance of Museums Announces the Ford W. Bell Fellowship for Museums and K-12 Education

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2015 The new Ford W. Bell Fellow will unite museums to create a brighter future WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the American Alliance of Museums announces the founding of the Ford W. Bell Fellowship for Museums and …

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