NEA Launches Jazz in the Schools
Long Beach, CA - The National Endowment for the Arts today announced the launch of NEA Jazz in the Schools, an educational resource for high school teachers of social studies, U.S. history, and music. The five-unit, web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history. The curriculum is produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz, and supported by a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. The announcement was made at a press conference as part of the International Association for Jazz Education
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