One of the fears (one of my fears anyhow) about standardized testing is that standardization will drive out all the neat and important stuff that isn?t easily measured. Here?s some indirect evidence that at least the arts haven?t been noticeably diminished.
Basmat Parsad and Maura Spiegelman put together the numbers on arts instruction in 2009-2010 as compared to a decade earlier. This covers a period with a large increase in standardized testing and is?mostly?before the Great Recession started wiping out all sorts of budgets. Here?s the secondary school picture. You can see that arts instruction is pretty much unchanged.
The story is about the same at the elementary level. There has been a drop-off in specialized dance and drama instruction, although there never was a whole lot of this in grammar school.
(Figures are from Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools 1999-2000 and 2009-10.)
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