Saving Music in Florida Schools by Testing

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For FCAT extra credit, a new tune
Music educators are endorsing an idea to have a state test
for music programs. "What is measured is valued."
By RON MATUS, Times Staff Writer
Published November 28, 2005
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/28/State/For_FCAT_extra_credit.shtml

Somehow, in a single 40-minute session last week,
Pinellas music teacher Briana Foley managed to teach
25 fourth-graders about dynamics and decrescendo,
tempo and accelerando, melody and ostinato - and do it
without glazed eyes or incident, except for one girl's
giggly tumble into a row of violin cases.
Even roll call was a lesson.
" "Lind-sey? " Foley sang.
" "I'm here ," came the response, in perfect pitch.
School children have been learning about music since
Plato, but in Florida, those lessons may soon come
with a new twist: an FCAT-like test.
Here's another twist: State officials aren't pushing the idea.
Music teachers are.
"Do we need another FCAT? The answer to that is no,"
said Jeanne Reynolds, performing arts supervisor for the
Pinellas school district and president-elect of the 4,000-member
Florida Music Educators Association.
"This is not an FCAT music test. But the reality is, what is measured is valued."
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Floridians: School  funding issues are getting really rough in South 
Florida.
A  Miami-Dade school board member says music and art could be goners.
http://tinyurl.com/9xt96  or
http://www.miami.com/


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Folk music - sung during the days before there was a music
industry when the role of music was about your life -
about the life and times that most of us don't experience
anymore and when the music was sung because it helped
people through it and sustained them.


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