Joanne Jacobs
Something to sing about
HBO Max will premiere a documentary tonight about 10th-graders at a Philadelphia magnet school who "write, compose, produce and perform...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 3, 2023
- 2 min
Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all
Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 25, 2022
- 1 min
Merry Christmas to all
"Carol of the Bells" is based on a Ukrainian folk song.
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
High school cancels ‘Mockingbird’ play
“Just hours before the curtain was to go up” last night, Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) “canceled its production of To Kill a...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2018
- 1 min
Music maestro, please
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has created a free after-school music program that reaches 1,300 students in six schools, reports the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 24, 2018
- 1 min
Teamwork, time and the universe
Via Viral Hog: Students in Chihuahua, Mexico demonstrate the traditional dance of the huahuas de puebla, which requires “confidence,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 13, 2018
- 1 min
‘Rise’ debuts, but you’ve seen it before
Rise, NBC’s new high school drama, premieres tonight at 10 Eastern. It’s Friday Night Lights meets Glee, writes Ed Week‘s Mark Walsh. A...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 10, 2018
- 1 min
‘Surfing USA’ gets a belated ‘A’
“Surfin’ USA,” a huge hit for the Beach Boys’ in 1963, earned Brian Wilson an “F” in his high school music class. When the 75-year-old...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 9, 2017
- 2 min
Teach art — not STEAM
Integrating art into science and math teaching — turning STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) into STEAM — is...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 20, 2017
- 1 min
The pleasures of poetry
High school students recited three poems they’d memorized for the Poetry Out Loud finals last month, reports Education Week. “This...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 13, 2017
- 1 min
Music, arts education holds steady
Sixty-three percent of eighth-graders took a music class and 42 percent took an art class in 2016, according to the National Assessment...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 10, 2017
- 1 min
High school goes Hamilton
Students are “learning U.S. history” from Hamilton, the hottest show on Broadway,” reports Wayne D’Orio in Education Next. EduHam funds...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 8, 2017
- 1 min
High school band buys only ‘composers of color’
Band directors at a Minnesota high school include at least one piece by a composer of color and one by a female composer in each band...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 18, 2017
- 1 min
Rock the schoolroom
Little Kids Rock is bringing music back to school, reports Kate Stringer on The 74. The non-profit was created by a California elementary...
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