[lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 4 06:08:14 PDT 2010


On Aug 4, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:


> What struck me about the quote, and the context added by others, is it
> sounds an awful lot like the sciency-mathy-techy,
> anti-humanities-arts-and-social sciences terrain of the vast majority
> American educational leaders.

Actually, in its emphasis on math & reading, No Child Left Behind has hurt not only music education, not to mention other arts and the social sciences, it's even taken a bite out of straight science.

Doug



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