November 13, 2006
Media Coverage and Podcasts
Report to NJ State Board of Education Media Coverage
And the Survey Says...
Bergen Record
Survey: 1 in 5 NJ schools lag in art education
Courier Post
Previous Coverage
Survey Launch Podcast and Media Coverage
We have posted a podcast of the press conference with Secretary of State Wells and Acting Commisioner of Education Davy regarding the launch of the New Jersey Visual and Performing Arts Education Survey. Great, passionate comments by all. Includes the Question and Answer session with the members of the media. To listen it go to: http://music-for-all.org/FromtheTrenchesPodcast.html and click on the file under "Previous Shows"
Online survey aims to gauge arts efforts in Jersey schools
Newark Star Ledger
Schools face the music
The Press of Atlantic City
We've got to have art in public schools
Courier News Editorial
Adapting, change key for schools
Courier News Opinion
Teaching to NCLB test won't inspire innovation
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Apr 9, 2006
How's your child's art study?
Asbury Park Press, NJ
A determination to protect arts in New Jersey schools
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
State orders arts education survey to ID, fix inequities
Newsday, NY
State surveying schools on arts education
Asbury Park Press, NJ
State launches arts education survey
New Brunswick Home News Tribune, NJ
Boosting the arts in public schools
NorthJersey.com, NJ
NJ moves to protect the arts from school budget cutbacks
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
NJ to conduct statewide arts education study
Dailyrecord.com, NJ
Posted by musicforall at 6:14 PM
April 23, 2006
New York Times Reports on NJ Arts Survey/Census
Today's New York Times includes a very substantive report on the New Jersey Arts Education Census Project. This well written look at our collective work provides insight into the thinking behind the project.
While school administrators and board of education candidates spent the last week fretting over the passage of budgets or getting elected, fine arts teachers at 2,408 schools throughout the state have had other concerns. The New Jersey Visual and Performing Arts Education Survey, begun earlier this month, is being described as the most comprehensive look at arts education ever done by a state.
Heading Off a Culture Clash - New York Times
Posted by musicforall at 9:43 AM | Comments (2)
March 20, 2006
Arts Education/Census Project Featured on NJN
Caucus New Jersey, hosted by Steve Adubato, explored "The State of the Arts in New Jersey" with a special look at arts education. The introductory video looks at what is happening a two schools and discusses the New Jersey Arts Education Census Project.
Click here to view the video (must have Windows Media Player)
Learn more at Caucus New Jersey
Posted by musicforall at 5:03 PM
January 31, 2006
In New Brunswick - The Sound of Music
When everyone works well together great things can happen for our students. The collaboration in New Bruswick to restore music and arts education is a great case in point!
During the two decades New Brunswick was remaking itself into a celebrated cultural hub, the music program in its public high school kept getting cut back until there was nothing. No chorus, no marching band, no orchestra.But with the help of the city's arts institutions, the district is rebuilding its music program, beginning with fourth- and fifth-graders. The goal is to prepare the younger students for the visual and performing arts institute planned for the new high school expected to open in 2009.
Posted by musicforall at 4:51 PM
June 28, 2005
Editorial: Return of instrumental music is good for New Brunswick
An editorial in th Home News Tribune points to the good news for New Brunswick. After a 20 year absence instrumental music will start in September.
The reintroduction of instrumental music instruction in the New Brunswick school system is a step that can provide rewards for many students who will pass through city classrooms in the years to come.The district hasn't offered such instruction in more than 20 years, but lessons will begin in September in instruments used in bands and orchestras - from the trumpet to the glockenspiel. And the administrators and educators hope that some of the hundreds of students who will take these lessons will end up in a broader arts program at the new high school expected to open in 2008.
Although no one has proved exactly how the study of music helps a child do well in academic subjects, there have been many objective studies that have shown that there is a correlation. Among other things, it seems clear that high school students who study music will do better on the SAT and similar standardized tests than will those who have not had music instruction. Other studies have shown that students exposed to music demonstrate improved ability to see the patterns in objects or numbers and improved facility with mathematics in general. Common sense also suggests that the broadening experience of both learning and playing music will cultivate skills, imagination and understanding in a young person.
New Brunswick children no less than others need an education with depth and breath, and music is an important part of that. Good for the school system for taking this step.
Home News Tribune | Return of instrumental music is good for New Brunswick
Posted by musicforall at 10:23 PM
June 24, 2005
Asbury Park Press Highlights Census Project
The New Jersey Arts Education Census Project crossed two major milestones this week: The completion of the field trial of the NJ Visual and Performing Arts Survey and the beginning of media coverage of the upcoming project with a front page story in the Asbury Park Press
ART FOR ART'S SAKE State to determine how well schools teach mandatory performance subjects (Published in the Asbury Park Press 05/23/05)BY NICHOLAS CLUNNSTAFF WRITER
When high school sophomore Joe Farruggio picks up a No. 2 pencil next year to take the test he must pass to graduate, his answers will show how well the Jackson school district taught him to read, write and apply mathematics.
Full Story APP.COM - ART FOR ART'S SAKE
Posted by musicforall at 3:52 PM