The National Association for Music Education (MENC)
http://www.menc.org
The Connecticut Music Educators' Association
http://www.cmea.org
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) is a national coalition of arts, education, business,
philanthropic
and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in the
learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.
http://aep-arts.org/
Music allows us to celebrate and preserve our cultural heritages, and also to explore the realms of
expression, imagination, and creation resulting in new knowledge. Therefore, every individual
should
be guaranteed the opportunity to learn music and to share in musical experiences.
MENCs Mission
To advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all.
http://www.menc.org/
The National Committee on Children's Choirs actively and effectively serves its ACDA constituency
by
generating interest in children's choirs, promoting significant musical activities for children's choirs,
identifying and encouraging the performance of fine literature for children's choirs, and developing
projects that enhance the choral art."
http://acdaonline.org/R&S/children/
The goal of this campaign is to make sure that youparents and concerned citizensknow that you
are potentially the best and most powerful supporters of arts education. We have supplied you with
information and resources on this website that help establish the place of the arts as both a full
academic subject area and as uniquely empowering activities that carry over into other areas of life
and study.
http://www.americansforthearts.org/public_awareness/
NPR's Performance Today takes a week-long look at the the state of music education in America's
schools. The series features reports from NPR's Korva Coleman, including interviews with outgoing
Education Secretary Rod Paige and Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4170557
The Connecticut State Department of Education curriculum website.
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/curriculum/frart1823.pdf