What is the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953)
100
This gave (usually) matching funds to districts with equal opportunity programs and helped to push money toward arts education
What is Title I under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)
100
MENC and the American Council for the Arts collaborated to bring together arts leaders in 1986, where they formed this advocacy organization.
What is the Ad Hoc National Arts Education Working Group
100
This 1973 revision caused arts education to take a small dive because of a refocusing its funding on "basic" skills
What is Title I of the ESEA of 1965
100
Although it gave students exposure to performers, this program under the National Endowment for the Arts arguably did not have much impact on the area of music education.
What is Artists-in-Schools
200
NAMM
What is the National Association of Music Merchants
200
Funding from this Public Law allowed many institutions of higher institution to found institutes for comparative music education.
What is the International Education Act of 1966
200
Because of the National Coalition for Education in the Arts, arts was included in this legislation, often viewed as the predecessor to the "No Child Left Behind" Act.
What is the Goals 2000 Act (1990)
200
Although this program's discussion produced "a climate conducive to change," few of the conclusions made a direct impact on music education due to the number and content of its participants.
What is the Yale Seminar on Music Education (1963)
200
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the USOE established this organization in 1973 to give "young people access to the Kennedy Center as performers and as audience members".
What is the National Alliance for Arts Education (NAE)
300
NABIM
What is the International Band and Orchestral Products Association
300
Amending the Cooperative Research Act of 1954, this section of PL 89-10 granted $100 million for projects and research, including the Special Training Project in Research in Music Education.
What is Title IV under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)
300
Comprising many names, such as Dave Brubeck, Whitney Houston, and Itzhak Perlman, this 1990 gathering publicly discussed the importance of music education. MENC then proceeded to publish its results.
What is the National Commission on Music Education
300
Inspired by the Yale Seminar on Music Education, Giannini led a project in 1964 that resulted in a mass of "high-quality and authentic music" to be use for school music in K-6 schools.
What is the Juilliard Repertory Project
300
A product of the Goals 200 Act, these "guidelines" helped to "legitimize" music education and give music educators a more concrete focus in their instruction. They are still in use today.
What are the National Standards for Music Education (1994)
400
IMPACT
What is What is the Interdisciplinary Model Programs in the Arts for Children and Teachers (1970)
400
Released in 1979, this report contained the results of the Department of Arts, Music, and Technology group's findings in their evaluation of arts projects that had received federal funding.
What is Try a New Face
400
Because of the possibility of losing music, art, and P.E., music educators, national organizations, and local musicians and organizations banded together to protect the public school programs in this city.
What is Chicago, IL (1972)
400
This referendum law passed in California led to a drop in funding and support in all areas of education, although educators pushed through it, achieving the inclusion of a fine-arts requirement in secondary education.
What is Proposition 13 (1978)
400
New York City began this set-up to facilitate communication and collaboration between schools, performance institutions, and arts organizations to give students a wider context for their arts education.
What are the Center for Arts Education Partnership Programs
500
KCAAEN
What is the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network
500
A subset of the Contemporary Music Project, this set-up allowed young composers to be in the public schools and directly impact the youth to be more accustomed to new music and take more of an interest it.
What is Composers in Public Schools
500
This Composer's concern with the receptivity of modern music helped lead to the establishment of the Contemporary Music Project funded multiple times by the Ford Foundation from 1963-1973.
Who is Norman Dello Joio
500
One of the functions of the Contemporary Music Project, this movement strove to break the stiff traditions of teaching music only using Western classical music and "boring" approaches.
What is Comprehensive Musicianship (1965-Seminar)
500
Started by Roy Ernst of the Eastman School of Music, this program gives adults across the country of various skill levels and backgrounds opportunities to participate in music programs.