WITHIN OUR POWER REPORT - What People Are Saying:
Newspapers and editorial boards are all hailing Music for All's report Within Our Power. Here are just a few excerpts of what people are saying
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"Let us hope that the arts census project report will serve as both a measuring stick, a look at what state schools are doing right, as well as an impetus toward improving, particularly in the more neglected areas of theater and dance. In our zeal to prepare young people for a 21st century world, we must not lose sight of just how cold and dark that world would be without the arts."
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Schools study reveals state's successes, shortcomings (Herald News Editorial)
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"These findings and the corresponding recommendations deserve the attention of all school boards and administrators. This report puts arts education on the front burner. It's about time. The life lessons learned from it are as valuable as any others a school can offer."
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Don't scrimp on the arts (Asbury Park Press Editorial)
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The coalition is to be commended for checking on compliance with the state's standards and trying to improve arts education. Obviously, reading, writing and math are crucial. But children are being cheated if they are denied the arts education that the state has pledged to give them.
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Arts education is lagging in public schools (The Record Editorial)
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This report sets a new bar for quality and depth of status and condition reporting. This data is so good and so accurate, and the methodology so deep and broad, that the host of thoughtful recommendations included in the report should be considered among the most educated statements that have ever been made in our field.
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| Top of their game (Americans for the Arts) |
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