Are We Really Teaching Students to be Creative When We Teach the Arts in Schools?
I believe we are sitting on the precipice of whole school reform in our country. Standardized testing has hit a tipping point; schools are still far behind when it comes to teaching critical twenty-first century skills; and there is a growing divide between the haves...
Instrumental Music Education and the Power of Play in Our Schools
I have spent many years visiting public schools throughout our nation, and most times I see the same thing: students hard at work. There is always lots of work going on in our schools, and with the increased emphasis on meeting national and state standards...
The Music Education (or Creativity) Achievement Gap in America, and How We Can Begin to Fix It
Our nation has been deeply committed to closing the achievement gap that exists in our education system for almost 15 years. Achievement gaps occur when one group of students outperforms another group and the difference in average scores for the two groups is...
Why Students Don’t Like School (and How Music Instruction Changes That)
We have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than ever before. Even with all the new knowledge we have about how children learn, our schools have been slow to adapt accordingly. In my time as a teacher and administrator, I have often...
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