Introduction.

At the behest of the editors of Arts Education Policy Review, I invited four scholars in the field to assess critically The Quiet Evolution: Changing the Face of Arts Education (1997), the evaluation report of the Getty's Regional Institute Grant programs (RIGs) written by Brent Wilson, head of art education at Pennsylvania State University and the Getty's principal evaluator.

E. Louis Lankford's discussion, based in part on his participation in the Ohio Partnership for the Visual Arts, points out the strengths of the report and then raises questions about key aspects of ...

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