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So Long No Child Left Behind…
SBO Staff | February 15, 2016The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 and What it Means for Music Education. Read More... -
Ready or Not – Teacher Evaluations Are Coming
SBO Staff | October 2, 2012The question is not if teachers need to be held accountable for student growth, but how. Read More... -
Reportapalooza 2012
SBO Staff | July 30, 2012A flurry of new studies and research reports unlock new and important knowledge of the status, condition, and impact of music and arts education in our schools. Read More... -
The Untold Story: How Music and Arts Education Became Core Subjects
SBO Staff | April 5, 2012How Music and Arts Education Became Core Subjects... Read More... -
Where is My Bailout?
SBO Staff | July 28, 2009With literally trillions of dollars being thrown at various industry sectors, stimulus programs and bailout efforts, the resounding chorus from the American public is this: “Where’s my bailout?” While I can’t speak to where the financial relief is for all Americans, I can go back to my favorite topic and examine how the economic stimulus […] Read More... -
Dear Mr. President
SBO Staff | January 23, 2009The Honorable Barack ObamaPresident of the United States of America1600 Pennsylvania AvenueWashington, D.C. Dear President Obama, How’s it going? Have you found all the light switches in your new digs? Is it hard to sneak into the kitchen for a midnight snack with all the Secret Service folks around? How about that dog for the […] Read More... -
Testing and Gas Prices and Wall Street…Oh My!
SBO Staff | November 18, 2008Eight years ago, I wrote an article called “The Perfect Storm” about the impact of the dot.com collapse in the stock market and the pending implementation of NCLB. Five years ago, I revisited this article with the second installment, entitled “The View from the Eye of the Perfect Storm,” where I further delved into the […] Read More... -
Tools of the Trade
SBO Staff | September 16, 2008Time to get ready for the new school year, which means planning your programs, selecting your music, getting your lesson plans arranged, reviewing your student roster and vocal range and… planning your advocacy activities! What, you didn’t think about that last one? I thought so! No time to focus on advocacy? Well if you do […] Read More... -
What Music Really Means
SBO Staff | May 20, 2008A long time and very good friend of mine, Tracy Leenman, sent me a note with this incredible and true story. It was so compelling that I realized my own thoughts for this month would be better saved for another day, so that I could share her inspirational anecdote with you. This is a story […] Read More... -
A Tribute: Mark Williams
SBO Staff | March 11, 2008President Clinton once said, “You gotta sound bad before you can sound good” to a class of beginning instrumental students in Milwaukee. Mark Williams undoubtedly would have disagreed. Mark Williams, one of Alfred Publishing’s most successful composers and arrangers, a self proclaimed “band geek” at heart who had a passion for empowering teachers to give […] Read More... -
What Does Music Education Have to Do with the…Success of Apple?
SBO Staff | February 5, 2008Well, I am glad you asked! For those of you who have been using any of Apple’s Macintosh computers (now called “Mac”s”) for any period of time will recall there was a time when Apple was the only computer that could really handle music well. Graphic designers found the same thing. Heck, most music notation […] Read More... -
Trust#149; But Verify!
SBO Staff | November 15, 2007After three years of work, we finally finished our major project conducting an arts education census of every public school for the state of New Jersey. It was a long, complicated process involving two agencies of state government, dozens of organizations, hundreds of people and thousands of schools. The results create the most comprehensive look […] Read More...
