Culturally Worlds Apart, Children Touch Musically
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A simulcast music exchange at Carnegie Hall on Saturday showed how technology can transform social studies and musical collaboration.
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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Somewhere there's an America that's full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families e-mails photos online and where Asians and blacks dance in the same nightclub. And that America is on your television.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 15--When Shiela Perez led her third-graders to Spann School's gym Thursday afternoon, she thought they were just going to enjoy a Christmas concert by the school's young singers.
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages.
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They've bumped and grinded and sung their way
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They grew up listening to '70s soul, learning to break dance, wearing Nikes, watching the "Star Wars" trilogy again and again. For the French rap group IAM, the fascination with American culture started when they were kids.
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Two pillars of the classical musical establishment, Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, have joined forces to give birth to a music academy.
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The soundtrack has lively numbers, which the youth may love.
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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In a country that has long prided itself on homogeneity, it's becoming cool for youth to embrace the growing number of foreigners in their midst.
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First, the stereotypes: girls like music, reading, knitting and playing dolls and excel in English. Boys like sports and do better in math.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of childâs developmental milestones.
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A hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't.  Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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In the marginalized world of music education, a good deal of serious thinking needs to be done.