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Who is Lowell Mason?
Known as the "Father of Music Education"
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Who was Horace Mann?
The "Father of the Common School"
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What is "Musiking"?
The term to describe any musical behavior including participation and interaction with music
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What are Singing Schools?
The earliest formal music instruction techniques
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What was Sputnik?
The Russian Satellite launch that fueled the race to space and increased science and math curricula in the US
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What was the Visions 2020 Conference?
The 1999 symposium that convened over 300 music educators from across the nation to discuss the future of the profession
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What is the Bay Psalm Book?
Was printed in 1752 with words to songs but no actual music
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What was the Progressive Era?
The time frame that schools were believed to perpetuate prosperity and resolve social problems
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What is Music?
The social and perceptual phenomenon that is as varied as the humans that create and use it
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What is Pestalozzian theory?
The theory that anyone could learn any subject including music
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What was the Common Core Initiative?
This national call for accountability led to the increased use of standardized testing in schools
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Who was Alan Merriam?
The anthropologist that in 1964 identified ten ways in which music functions in every society throughout the world
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Where is Keokuk, Iowa?
Location of the original meeting place of the Music Supervisors National Conference
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What is Education?
Considered to be "the great equalizer" for American society
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What is Comprehensive Musicianship?
The 1960's movement to broaden music offerings in the schools
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