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Mac Arthur Goodwin is executive director of Goodwin's Arts Consulting and a consultant with Educational Testing Service, Inc. From 1985 to 2000, he served as the education consultant for the visual and performing arts with the South Carolina Department of Education. During his tenure there, he coordinated the state's Advanced Placement Program. He chaired the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts visual arts summer honors program. Mac began his teaching career as an elementary school teacher and subsequently taught at every level, from kindergarten through higher education.
Mac's involvements in arts education include serving as president of the NAEA, director of the National Supervision and Administration Division, task force member of the Art Education Standards Development and chair of the Consortium of National Professional Arts Associations. He was vice chair of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Art Standards Committee and served on the development committees for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Arts Assessment Framework Consensus and the NAEP Visual and Performing Arts Assessment Task Development Team and Arts Assessment Standards.
In South Carolina, he has served as chair of the South Carolina African American Monument Citizen Advisory Committee, chair of the South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education and vice chair of the South Carolina Arts Alliance. He has been a member of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities board of directors as the State Department of Education representative; and the Columbia Museum of Art board of directors.
Mac participated in the NAEA conventions in Miami, Florida, and Minneapolis, Minnesota; Governor's Conference on Arts Education in Honolulu, Hawaii; Very Special Arts International Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida; Empire State Summer Seminar in Albany, New York; and Bridging Program and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C.
Clips from MacArthur Goodwin 
On Too Many Standards to Teach Them All
On The Risk of Becoming Too Narrow
