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World wide wow! (Forum focus: arts awareness and advocacy).(arts education web sites)
With a few mouse clicks, arts advocacy tools literally are at our fingertips. The following list has the most current websites of organizations and programs involved in arts advocacy. The list is a guide to help educate music teachers, the general public and policy decision makers about the importance of a strong music and arts education in America. While it is not a complete list, this information is provided to help your advocacy efforts.
American Arts Alliance
www.americanartsalliance.org
This website was under construction as of this writing, but for more information contact them at 1869 Park Rd. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010; (202) 387-8300, fax: (202) 797-9856.
American Music Conference (AMC)
www.amc-music.com
AMC promotes the benefits of music education and provides the Music Education Advocate's Toolkit--the "Einstein Kit"--to gain support for music education in your local community. Many Toolkit resources also are online at www.amc-music.com/advocacy/toolkit.htm.
- A long trail awinding: issues, interests, and priorities in arts education...
- Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review Colwell, Richard May 1, 1998 700+ words
...those of their colleagues in visual arts education, as the National Art Education Association...higher learning are pleased when their music education faculty publish the results of their...sections. In the first, I describe music education and its priorities as a basis for...
- The Music Education/Arts Education Path.
- Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review COLWELL, RICHARD January 1, 2000 700+ words
...there is a need for a consistent definition of arts education and music education, with accompanying policies that are coherent...not. Too often, tradition and practice in music education have substituted for thoughtful educational...
- Aims and methods in Danish preschool music education.(Symposium: Arts Education...
- Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review Holgersen, Sven-Erik September 1, 1997 700+ words
Music education for preschool children is a topical...shall try to explain how and why music education at the preschool level has developed...specifically the music schools.(1) Music education has been shaped by four different...
- Arts education standards presented to Secretary Riley. (US Secretary of...
- Magazine article from: Music Trades July 1, 1994 700+ words
...Standards for Arts Education were presented...Coalition for Music Education and American...Standards for Arts Education are the first...thinking on arts education available in...coalition for music education. * Every school...
- Music Education Half a Century Hence.(arts education in 2050)
- Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review MAHLMANN, JOHN J. November 1, 2000 700+ words
...tied to new understandings of sound production. Another nonmusical factor that will have a large impact on both music and music education comes from cognitive science. Learning theorist Howard Gardner has already convincingly posited that music is a "form...
- NAMM launches campaign to build music education: petition drive and national...
- Magazine article from: Music Trades August 1, 1990 700+ words
NAMM Launches Campaign To Build Music Education The annual member luncheon of the...national awareness of the benefits of music education. The meeting, held on June 18...petition reads, "Yes, I want to make a music education a driving force in America's schools...
- Can music education save the world? A college's director of music outreach...
- Newspaper article from: Curriculum Review Etter, Beth September 1, 2002 700+ words
...challenges of the 21st century. The exam has been taken. The results are in. And they tell us that we must raise the bar on arts education." And he is right. Other exemplary programs dedicated to the belief that every American child deserves access to music...
- Arts Education Policy in the Twentieth Century.
- Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review WERNER, ROBERT J. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...of democratization of arts education, particularly music education, in our elementary and...instruction in the schools. Music education in our high schools developed...With this growth in music education and, to some extent...
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