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VH1 Save The Music News!12/02 In this issue of VH1 Save The Music News! (Please Note: Winners for the Band Uniforms have already been selected. Thanks for participating!) - VH1 Save The Music Special Edition Holiday Cards On Sale Now! - "Education Week" On The Web Publishes Article Tying SAT and ACT Score Dips To Curriculum That Includes Arts Education VH1 Save The Music Special Edition Holiday Cards On Sale Now! With the holiday season rapidly approaching, we ask that you give the gift of music by purchasing the VH1 Save The Music Foundation's special-edition holiday card. These cards feature a unique holiday design and are sold in packets of ten for $25.00. Each box that you purchase will help support the VH1 Save The Music Foundation's mission of improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the country. Proceeds from the Holiday card sale will be used to provide new musical instruments to children in public schools and give these children all the benefits of an education that includes music. Please help us celebrate the holidays by giving the gift of music to our children. Phone or Email your order to: For more information please visit our website at www.vh1savethemusic.com. Thank you for your support and best wishes to you all during this holiday season! "Education Week" On The Web Publishes Article Tying SAT and ACT Score Dips To Curriculum That Includes Arts Education Below are some excerpts from "Officials Tie Entrance-Score Dips To Curriculum" by Sean Cavanaugh published on September 4th, 2002 in the online edition of Education Week. "Upon releasing the latest set of annual entrance-exam scores from across the country, the creators of the SAT and the ACT saw strikingly similar elements in the results… Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students' failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education. Average scores on the verbal portion of the SAT declined slightly, to 504 on an 800-point scale, in the 2001-02 testing cycle, 2 points below the previous year, and the same level as two decades ago… The dip in verbal scores could not be explained simply by a larger pool of SAT-takers with limited English skills, College Board officials said. Instead, they pointed to what they say are lapses in high school instruction. 'Students are still taking four years of English, but too many high schools are putting emphasis on the arts, theater, and 'multimedia' study, including television, at the expense of composition and grammar,' contended Wayne Camara, the vice president of research and development for the College Board." At VH1 Save The Music, we take issue with this statement, as we're sure most of you do. We know that the arts are a vital part of the core curriculum and are not detrimental, but helpful, to students' test scores. We encourage you to reach out to Mr. Cavanaugh and Mr. Camara with your thoughts on this issue. The VH1 Save The Music initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring and supporting music programs in cities across the country, and by raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our Nation's youth. Visit our Website at http://vh1.com/insidevh1/savethemus |
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