Assignments Week#8 and Week#9

Week#8

Reflection for Chapters 7 and 8
2-3 page summary for the research article I gave you on Monday evening
The topic of your research paper along with a list of bibliography (please refer to the research paper guidelines).
Read through the two chapters (by Christopher Small) I post on COURSE DOCUMENT (under Sociology folder). There's no need to write summary/reflection for these two chapters. But keep in mind that there'll be discussions about these two chapters (and the short one by Jere Humphreys) in class on March 16.

Week#9 (Spring break)

Read through the research article I assign you to read (will be posted on COURSE DOCUMENT soon) and make a presentation (ppt) for that. You will have to present it in class on March 16 (as if it were your paper). For this one, you don't need to submit the summary. The presentation itself will be enough.
Post your thoughts about No Child Left Behind. For this assignment, just post it on your web blog. I'd like you to address the following points: its background, its influences on education in general, its influences on music education (or arts education) in particular; and what are the things you (as music educators) have done to counteract this policy and what are the things you have to continue fighting (if there's any) against the administrators to save music in school curriculum?