About Us

The Music Education Policy Project brings together Boston University faculty and student scholars with an interest in the application of policy studies to music education. We are guided by the belief that the best advocacy results from the effective communication of solid research. Our research informs practitioners, advocates, and policy makers.
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Our Blog

Music Education Policy Notes is the official Weblog of the Policy Project. Here are our most recent posts:

New Bibliographic Resources - 10/7/2010

New Policy Dissertation - 4/28/2010

Music in Obama's Vision for Education - 3/16/2010

NCLB's Impact on Art Education - 2/20/2010

FY 2011 Budget: What's in it for Music Education? - 2/2/2010

 

Featured Research

Dr. Ronald Kos presented a paper entitled Silencing Popular Music Culture: Policy Barriers to Culturally Relevant Curriculum in the United States at the Seminar of ISME's Policy Commission on Culture, Education and Media in Kaifeng, China.
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Congratulations to Margaret Skidmore, who will be presenting a paper based on her dissertation research at the Consortium for Research on Equity in Music Education conference in October, 2010.defended his dissertation entitled Assessing the Initial Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum of 2006 on Music in High Schools: A Survey of Public High School Implementation of New High School Graduation Requirements.
Dissertation Abstract