The music program offers a B.A. degree in music in the areas of voice and piano. All prospective music majors must pass an entrance audition before being permitted to declare the music major. In the ...

San Diego Unified parents have raised concerns that the way the school district plans to spend voter-approved funding meant to expand arts programs could actually reduce elementary schools’ existing ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

No education is complete without arts and music. It’s not just an extracurricular; study after study shows arts education increases a child’s motor skills and spatial reasoning, improves performance ...

For decades, arts and music education in California has been dying a slow death in many schools, strangled by budget cuts amid an ongoing emphasis on core subjects like reading and math and test ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

For the past twenty-five years, funding cuts to music programs in public schools have been on the rise, as school boards and superintendents often cite economic strains as a justification for the cuts ...

Bright and early one recent morning, Jessica Sheldon stood before a crowd of third graders in Sunnyvale. She was playing a ukulele as a microphone hung from her ear — and she was coaching the kids to ...

California has long been famous for its creativity, the engine driving everything from the entertainment industry to the tech sector. But decades of budget cuts and a laser focus on core subjects have ...

It’s hard to imagine anyone anywhere who doesn’t think, all things being equal, that we should spend substantially more money educating students in music and the arts. Not only does arts education ...

SACRAMENTO — A measure on the November ballot could boost school funding for music and arts education by about $1 billion — a move that proponents say will create more equitable classrooms and lead to ...