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Music in Schools

A Maryland Teacher Changes Lives By Creating Opera in the Classroom

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.02.2013 | DC
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Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Mary Ruth McGinn's class at Stedwick Elementary School in suburban Maryland has an intriguing second name and unique purpose: they've have formed an in-house troupe called the Fire Starters Kids Opera Company.

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Teacher Under Fire For Playing Explicit Rap Song In Class

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.11.2012 | Home
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Heather Michelle New, a teacher at Crooms Academy of Information Technology in Sanford, Fla., has been placed on five-day unpaid suspension after play...

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Music and Our Children

Agnes Gund | Posted 11.14.2011 | New York
Read More: Music Education, Music in Schools, Classical Music, Music and Child Development, Music and Kids, Music Children, Music Class, Music and Children, New York News
Agnes Gund

I am also discovering music everywhere else. For American youngsters, music is alive and loud outside of school. The commitment to playing and singing and concertizing takes many forms.

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You, Too, Can Play and Fight

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Freddie Gershon

I'm a jaded New Yorker. I admit, a Venezuelan documentary entitled, Play and Fight, would not be on my list of musts. But I saw it and wow.

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