http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/arts/dance/a-4-36-million-gift-to-boost-dance-education.html 2016-10-17 23:41:06 A $4.36 Million Gift to Boost Dance Education The donation will allow Teachers College at Columbia University to establish a new doctoral program to train those who train dance teachers. === As the decline of arts education in recent decades has increasingly alarmed cultural institutions, a new $4.36 million gift aims to bolster dance education by taking a different approach. The gift, from Jody Gottfried Arnhold and her husband, John, will allow Teachers College at Columbia University to establish “My intent is to ensure that Teachers College will create the next generation of leadership in the field of dance education,” said Ms. Arnhold, a former public school dance teacher who founded the 92nd Street Y’s Dance Education Laboratory. She earned her master’s degree in dance education from Teacher’s College, in a program that was discontinued in 2005. The Arnholds’ gift, which will officially be announced at a lunch on Tuesday, will allow Teachers College to resume its position as a center that trains dance educators. A century ago the pioneering dance educator But the question remains: What will the market for dance teachers at public schools look like in the coming years? A recent New York City’s public schools have a little more than 250 certified dance instructors, which an official at the Department of Education said was an all-time high. The system educates 1.1 million students in more than 1,800 schools.