Discipline-based arts education is systematic instruction in concepts and processes intrinsic to the visual arts and includes participation in the aesthetic, critical, historical, and productive activities essential to appreciating cultural values. The systematic character of the instruction permits accountability. Guidelines for such study have…

Reports on a three-day conference entitled "Creative Process in Education: Design for Quality Learning." Held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the conference focused on integrating the arts into the elementary curriculum. Teaching ideas presented in workshop sessions are described. (Author/SJL)

Presents a collection of cantankerous opinions criticizing political correctness, abstract art, sympathy for AIDS sufferers, and arts advocacy. Contains a briefly coherent passage advocating serious and rigorous formal study. The rest amounts to little more than a conceptual mapping of rancorous reactions to the current state of affairs. (MJP)