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Article: What does 'p' in music mean? Twenty percent of US students know.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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Byline: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Half of American eighth-graders can tell that a clarinet is playing the solo when they listen to the opening passage of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
That's one finding of "The Nation's Report Card: Arts 2008" - the first snapshot since 1997 of students' performance in music and visual arts.
The report shows little change in arts participation and achievement. For instance, 57 percent of the students attended schools with music instruction at least three or four times a week in 2008, and 47 percent had access to visual arts instruction that often. These figures show ...