Music teachers seek imaginative openings to expand the reach and scope of the music curriculum, particularly by engaging more students in creative production and culturally relevant offerings. This article describes the work of a high school choral music educator who implemented new courses in Hip Hop Production by strategically navigating the…

Professional discussion of curricular change and innovation is essential for maintaining and increasing the positive effects that music education can have on schoolchildren. Much recent discourse about curricular change has focused on critiques of the traditional large-ensemble model of music education, technological innovation applied to teaching…

In music education, current attention to student-centered approaches for learning affects our understanding of student assessment. This view to curriculum reform requires new perspectives for assessment. There is a need to move beyond the summative use of assessment to assign grades to examining the roles of assessment in supporting and enhancing…

Music teachers, like their colleagues in other fields, are living through a paradoxical time in schools. Currents of change in education and society seem to pull teachers in contradictory directions. Nowhere is this flux more apparent than in curriculum. While teachers are called upon to differentiate teaching approaches to meet the diverse needs…

A discussion of Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS). (MB)

Outlined the difficult and challenging role of the music educator. (RK)

Considered the factors that caused people to close themselves to learning and stressed the need for teachers to increase their self perception as a means toward improving teaching effectiveness. (RK)

Article considered human goals in music education. (Editor/RK)

Article described the potential the music program has and the challenge it faces for the music specialist in the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Summarizes discussions at a symposium of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) of multicultural music education. Offers ideas about the teaching of African-American, Native American, Asian-American, and Hispanic music. Presents MENC's resolution supporting multicultural music education. Describes the symposium as a major event in…

Discusses a National Endowment for the Arts report titled "Toward Civilization: A Report on Arts Education," in relation to its value to music educators' efforts to strengthen their music programs. Criticizes the report for defining arts education too broadly, but praises the report for supporting the basic beliefs of music educators.…

Asserts that the challenge facing music educators today is to provide students with enriching music instruction within a changing educational environment. Describes a four-phase program adopted by a small rural Texas school district that helped improve music education within a limited budget. (CFR)

Addresses the creation of national standards for music education in Lithuania. Provides background information on the role of music in Lithuania. Explains that in 1997 a group of music educators helped develop the standards. Demonstrates that the proposed standards will be easily implemented since they were being practiced in the classroom…

Contends that Comprehensive Musicianship of the Contemporary Music Project has been all but ignored by music educators. Argues that Comprehensive Musicianship is the answer to a lack of measurable goals and assessment criteria in instrumental music. Concludes that secondary music instructors who fail to incorporate these techniques risk losing…

Asserts that U.S. education has entered a new era of advocacy for arts education. Describes publications and other efforts of the National Coalition for Music Education. Compares effective and ineffective advocacy methods and includes a table of contents of an "Action Kit for Music Education." (CFR)