Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2006/04

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:42:06 -0400

Our local paper covered this study as well- their
article is at:
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=102128&ran=178144
The site for the Center on Education Policy is:
http://www.cep-dc.org/

Take Care,
Anne

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
> A couple of interesting newspaper articles about music this week. They
> were attributed to major national newspapers, not locally written, but I
> don't remember which papers.

SNIP

> The other article was a nationwide survey, done by an allegedly neutral
> organization (again, I don't remember the name and I couldn't pass
> judgement even if I did remember the name). The survey tallied
> elementary & middle & high school budgets and curricula. 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. One example was a school district that puts its student through
> three English classes (in the same semester), and has eliminated art and
> physical education in order to pay for this. (again, fwiw)
>

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