ACTION ALERT: Support Music Education in our Schools
Tell your Members of Congress that when the No Child Left Behind Act is reauthorized, Congress should provide flexibility in the law for music and arts programs.
Need advice and experts? Make Your Case.
Budget deficits impacting music education in your state? Review analysis and options.
Check out the PSAs that played during the DCI Championships on ESPN (QuickTime)
It Takes...
It's About the Journey
Last a Lifetime
Start Somewhere
Support Music
Who You Become
Keynote Address: "Beyond Measure Seven: Lessons that Linger" by Professor Larry Livingston, USC Thornton School of Music / Director of Educational Initiatives, Guitar Center; delivered at NAMM's Music Education Day Reception on Sunday January 18 2009, Anaheim California.
(MP3 Audio File / 35 min. / 24.5 MB)
Use ArtsEd Washington's Principals' Arts Leadership (PAL) five-year old training program to develop and implement arts planning & best practices at your school.
A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation
by Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination (2008)
View the statistics on public school's narrowing curriculum from the Center on Education Policy
Read "Music Advocacy: Dancing With The School Board"
by Joan Schmidt, former President, National School Boards Association
Use the Education Commission of the States' new Arts Education Report & other resources developed by Governor Huckabee's Commission on the Arts in Education.
N.J. Arts Education Census Project Report
Full report with surveys, findings, recommendations
Search the 2007-2008 AEP Arts Education State Policy Database
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