Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2006/04

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:54:54 -0400

> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:o4rmondtoby@-----.net]
>
> <snip>The result
> was that arts and physical education (of all types) have
> continued to lose ground over the last 2-3 years because "No
> Child Left Behind" is forcing schools to spend an increasing
> amount of money on English &
> Math.

There have been a number of articles including a recent one in the NY Times
detailing this and other lengths to which schools feel forced to go to try
to meet Adequate Yearly Progress benchmarks. It will be worse starting next
year - in Pennsylvania, at least, science will be added to English and Math
in the testing regimen. The pendulum will eventually swing away from the
nonsense of NCLB and, with luck, we will be left with curricula that are
more rigorous in all content areas but within a balanced, broader framework
than NCLB permits.

Karl

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