Recorder: Peter Pennekamp, Vice President for Cultural Programs, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.

Recommendations:

1. Assess curriculum materials to determine if different, and a greater variety of, materials are needed. The goal is to ensure that substantive and usable materials are available for use in preservice, primary, and secondary education.
2. Provide staff development to support use of materials.
3. Scholars should be aware of the realities of the classroom. Don't put down practicing teachers!
4. Increase collaboration with social scientists and all other knowledgeable people when appropriate, and generally promote interdisciplinary teaching.
5. Encourage teachers wherever and whenever possible to increase students' tolerance and appreciation of diverse art. Teachers should be encouraged to see diversity as enriching; lack of diversity as boring.
6. Include artifacts and information from a broad range of art worlds. Examples given include: carnivals, advertising, rock concerts, graffiti, design, comic books, architecture, film and video, murals, radio.
7. Make more of a connection between the visual and performing arts.
8. Develop a booklet of success stories on implementing DBAE and diversity in the classroom.
9. Training in critical visual skills about mass media should be included as part of the art canon.
10. Determine ways to better use the capabilities of living resources, e.g., artists-in-residence, in classrooms for substantive, multicultural, educational value.
11. Teachers should be encouraged to use the materials creatively, as well as to be responsible to facts and traditions. (Fred Wilson inspired).

Issues Unresolved:

1. There is art that can't be taught without raising social, psychological, or political problems: Eliot, Pound, Guston, Goya. Does "nasty" art belong in the precollege classroom?
2. Where does cultural "authority" reside? Who can and should speak for communities and traditions not now represented, or poorly represented?
3. The inclusion of a full range of American cultures must be covered in K-12, not in any given year.

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