School Music Matters: A Music Education Advocacy Resource Center

School Music Matters: Music Education Advocacy Resource Center

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Survey Statistics
From the 2007 survey. To date, 411 have responded to the survey.

Will staffing changes in the next year affect your music program?
Yes	25.3%
No	67.2%
No Answer	7.5%

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Survey Responses
"Worst effect has been huge increase in amount of testing. This takes kids out of music while they take mandated tests. And also, bigger emphasis on assessments in music. Hard to assess kids when I don't even see them much! Only one hour a week."- survey response about No Child Left Behind. Read more survey responses...

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Beethoven At Bedtime

The main goal of SchoolMusicMatters.com is to help music teachers protect their school music programs. Below are some of the many resources we offer to help you:

• Ideas from your peers on how to promote school music
• Downloads, including graphics you can use in newsletters and music you can perform
• Facts to help convince the uninformed of just how vital school music is
• Links to advocacy and resource sites, with a brief site summary
• Quotations on music, education, and life to use in newsletters or on bulletin boards - or just for inspiration

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.

Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian composer

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NEWS BRIEFS

National Anthem Grand Finale June 14-16, 2007
6/6/2007

Student Compositions for Entry at MENC In-Service Conference
6/6/2007

ARTICLES

Encore brings out best in community, children
Get Involved!
09/17/2007

Further Support For Music Heard On Capitol Hill
Music, the resolution states, enhances skills necessary for the 21st century.
Get Involved!
5/15/2007

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