A historical analysis of textbook development in American music: education and the impetus for the national standards for music education.

Arts Education Policy Review, November, 2005 by Branscome, Eric

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In 1994, the National Association for Music Education (MENC) adopted nine content standards that have, since that time, helped to standardize curricula for elementary music education and have given curriculum writers a more well-defined goal for their product. According to MENC (1994a; Hoffer 2001), these standards were developed as a result of the educational reform movement in the 1980s that criticized the quality of education and lack of consistency in American public schools.

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A historical analysis of textbook development in American music: education and the impetus for the national standards for music education.

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