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It’s been three decades since there’s been such a seismic shift in how DCI drum corps have been judged. This coming June, the ensembles taking the field at the start of the new Drum Corps International season will be competing under an entirely new adjudication system. [read more]
Minneapolis – January 18, 2012 – MakeMusic, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMUS) today announced an upcoming iPad music app that will enable iPad users to view, print and play electronic sheet music. Viewing music on the iPad frees musicians from sorting and managing printed music, and makes it easy to bring thousands of pieces of music to practice, rehearsals and gigs. Unlike the printed page, this music can play back, facilitating learning and selection of new titles. Music for the iPad app can be created using Finale as well as with the free, downloadable Finale NotePad. [read more]
Vox announced new compact combos, signature models, acoustic amps, limited editions and a new delay pedal at NAMM 2012.The vintage-style DelayLab offers 30 diverse delay effects and a stereo looper that can capture up to 28 seconds and 30 programs, all within a rugged diecast body.[read more]
On a typical Saturday afternoon, as Texas takes the field, you can see the dedication of the orange and white clad Longhorns who battle through pain, intense heat and long practices day in and day out just to play a sport. What many don’t realize is that the dedication shown by the boys without helmets and pads is just as valuable and just as respectful read more]
David Chard, dean of Southern Methodist University’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development, is part of that conversation. He wrote recently in this newspaper, “High-quality teachers must have two things: knowledge of content and effective instructional strategies.”[read more]
PORT ARTHUR — On Thursday, the Port Neches-Groves school board will consider filing a lawsuit against FieldTurf, the company responsible for installing the turf at Port Neches-Groves High School’s Indian Stadium. For the past two years PN-GISD has been evaluating the turf, which cost almost $2 million to install in 2008, for premature deterioration: The breaking apart of the nylon fibers used in the artificial grass.[read more]
For a moment, try to envision an America where, regardless of how much money you make or where you live, the government empowered you - even encouraged you - to send your children to better schools.I’m talking about schools that inspire your children, challenge them to excel, and encourage them to dream big and plan for their futures, all while teaching them to love learning.[read more]
At Clintondale High School, we have been using this education model for the past 18 months. During this time, our attendance rate has increased, our discipline rate decreased, and, most importantly, our failure rate - the number of students failing each class - has gone down significantly. When we first implemented this model in the ninth grade, our student failure rate dropped by 33% in one year.[read more]
HAMPTON - Leon Kuehner, retired band director at Hampton-Dumont High School, has been selected as the recipient of the National Federation of State High School's Outstanding Music Educator Citation Award.[read more]
In July, Robert Warrior, director of the American Indian Studies program, wrote to then-interim Chancellor Robert Easter, urging him to end the "Indian-themed music" played at halftime of athletic events. [read more]
Dallas ISD teacher Bart Marantz has been awarded the prestigious National John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year award. Marantz has led jazz studies at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts since 1983. The national award, named for legendary jazz educator John LaPorta, is given by the Jazz Education Network and the Berklee College of Music. School educators can compete for the award, given to the candidate that exhibits high standards and has brought distinction to their institution.[read more]
For the second straight year, Decatur school trustees approved an early notification of resignation incentive plan for district employees.Superintendent Rod Townsend said at Thursday’s board meeting the number of employees will be capped at 15, and the maximum they would receive for their early notification would be $8,000.[read more]
Deming High School Band Director Bernie Chavez along with his band students were honored with superior ratings for All State from the Southwestern New Mexico Music Educators Association (SNMMEA) All-State Band Festival in November of 2011 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Along with that audition and competition event came the prestigious selection as the state's Honor Band.[read more]
San Antonio Symphony: No. 8 and 9, Feb. 10-11 (with an additional performance of No. 9 on Feb. 12): No. 8 “is a short symphony. It's one of the shortest, very compressed and condensed and extremely playful. The last music is really virtuosic; it's fast, light and very demanding for the string to play, to get it crisp and tight.”[read more]
There are very few things -- except for maybe next week's alumni games -- that can duplicate the feeling of stepping onto a high school football field on a Friday night in Texas. At that moment, when the stench of a smelly locker room meets that sweet smell of freshly-cut grass and the smoky aroma of barbecue wafting in the fall air, you know something special is about to go down.[read more]
AUSTIN – Commissioner Robert Scott has announced the nomination of 26 Texas public schools for the 2012 Blue Ribbon Schools recognition. The award honors schools for academic excellence and for significant progress in closing the achievement gap [read more]
Star Wars. George Lucas. Star Wars. George Lucas. Star Wars. George Lucas. For 40-plus years, the two names have been synonymous. Thus, when Lucas birthed Red Tails, some people may have assumed that the movie would be set somewhere and sometime in that galaxy, far, far away. But no, we are much closer to home! Instead of opening the movie with a battle over the skies of Coruscant, this film takes place in the middle of the air war of the European theater of World War I[read more].
The NAMM Foundation today launches its annual effort to recognize and support schools across the United States that support music education as part of a complete and quality education for all children. The Best Communities for Music Education recognition program celebrates the positive impact of music education on schools, students and communities.[read more]
A Convention Center expansion that would add 100,000 square feet of space, give the facility a new entrance and keep San Antonio competitive for major conventions is on the drawing board.[read more]
As Bobby Jenks spoke before his eighth-period band class at Capital High School Tuesday afternoon, he did so in the confidence that his job was safe.That had not been the case since last Thursday, when Jenks' future as Capital's band director seemed to come down to the luck of a draw.Jenks and three other county music teachers were summoned to the school board office that day. Once they got there, the four were instructed to draw numbers from a red Solo cup.[read more]
Parents of Southwest DeKalb High School band members criticized the DeKalb County Board of Education at a recent board meeting for suspending all marching band activity and accused Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson of being “in over her head.” DeKalb County Schools suspended all marching band activity after reports surfaced in the media of hazing incidents at Florida A&M University involving former DeKalb graduates, including one that resulted in the death of Robert Champion, who attended Southwest DeKalb.[read more]
I have yet to find another teaching job. There are so many teachers – young, enthusiastic, untenured teachers – looking for work, that there just aren’t enough classrooms for us all.In the meantime, I find myself humbly begging for dead-end jobs: serving ice cream, selling cell phones, cleaning a veterinarian’s office, anything to make ends meet. [read more]
As Texas schools whittle their budgets in response to the state’s multibillion dollar education cuts, they are eyeing every expenditure, from athletics to busing and even field trips. [read more]
We are the co-founders of the group, M.U.S.I.C. or Musically United Students against Inefficient Cutting. We started this nonprofit organization because we are frustrated by music programs being cut from public schools. Our goal is to tops the cutting of musical programs in all public schools and instead expand them.[read more]
Copyright is not an absolute. Potato chips are absolute. If this is my potato chip, then it's not yours. You can't touch it, eat it or use it for any reason whatsoever, not without asking first. Copyright doesn't work that way. There is a yin to the yang of copyright protection, and it's called Fair Use. Fair use permits scholars to do their thing, permits those that would do parody or commentary or comparison to be heard. [read more]
Re: Eliminating Sports in public schools
Posted by midwesterner on 1/26/2012, 5:21 am, in reply to "Eliminating Sports in public schools"
My sister lives in a medium size community in another state. Every sport has only 1 coach. Even football. These coaches are assisted by volunteers who are paid a small stipend for after school practices and games. Classroom teachers are either not allowed or discouraged (I don't know which) from assisting with sports. They are competitive because the other schools in the area do the same thing. She likes it because her kids are taught academics by people who are hired for their skill in their subject, not for their coaching ability. The coaches are all either P.E. teachers or the athletic director. Not an elimination of sports, but putting them in a more appropriate perspective, in my opinion.
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