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Re-envisioning No Child Left Behind, and What It Means for Arts Education
From the Obama-Biden Transition Project via Flickr In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama spent almost 10 of his 60 minutes discussing why it’s so essential to offer every child a...
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El Sistema: The Movement
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra (image by gichristof) El Sistema is a system of youth orchestras in Venezuela designed to save the lives of under-served children through intensive and fun participation...
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It Don’t Mean a Thing (If There’s No Audience to Swing): Jazz Audience...
Portrait of Jimmy Jones, John (O.) Levy, and Al Casey(?), Pied Piper, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 | Library of CongressMy earliest memories of attending live jazz events as a child include my...
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Arts Policy Library: Critical Links
SUMMARY The story of “Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development,” an extraordinarily ambitious collection of research on arts education, begins in 1997, when a...
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This is the quick-fix version of my essay for the Arts Policy Library about “Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development,” edited by Richard Deasy. I hope this will...
View ArticleConnecting El Sistema Programs in the US
Who knew little kids playing Tchaikovsky in Latin America could inspire national institutional partnerships in the United States? Last month, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced a new Masters of...
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