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	<title>Rural Music Education</title>
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		<title>MENC on Rural Music Education</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=85</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Cathy Benedict for bringing to my attention MENC&#8217;&#8217;s latest offering on rural, suburban, and urban music teaching.  Here is the rural part with my comments in brackets:
&#8220;So, have you thought about where you want to teach? Rural, suburban, urban&#8211;how different are they? Janice Smith, Frank Heuser, and Michele Kaschub offer up the rewards and difficulties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-rural Perspectives 2</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=82</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some more from Mr. Gibson:
&#8220;A third problem is one that has to do with the rural school children themselves.
Many of these have had little musical experience. They have heard little music and taken part in less up to the time they enter school.
They come into school where there are chi8ldren in seven and eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Rural Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=80</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some anti-rural views from Thomas L. Gibson, Maryland State Supervisor of Music, in 1925.
&#8220;First, there is the problem of the adult rural people. 
A very large number of this class have had little or no musical experience. They are illiterate in the subject and see no sense in teaching it. There is also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural and Urban</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I notice Rural and Urban Music Education being grouped together at multiple conferences along with the assertion that they share a lot of the same challenges. Other than higher levels of poverty than suburban areas, I&#8217;m not sure I would agree that there are significant similarities. Does it really benefit rural music students and teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Population Trends</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=39</link>
		<comments>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rural populations are NOT declining in North America &#8220;across the board&#8221;. For example, they are declining somewhat in many rural areas that aren&#8217;t close to cities, but they are growing in many rural areas within a reasonable commuting distance to metropolitan areas. Rural population growth/decline is a complex issue. The following map details this trend in the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Matters Grant</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this grant from Muzak that sounds like a real possibility for an innovative k-12 rural music program.
Here&#8217;s the link: http://heart.muzak.com/what/grants.aspx
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		<title>West Desert High School</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is West Desert High School where I graduated in 1985 as the salutatorian of a graduating class of two&#8211;me and my cousin. Grandpa was our guest speaker. Graduation program music performances included a song from the teachers, a song or two from the elementary kids, a song from the high school choir, a performance from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Bright Array of City Lights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ruralmusiceducation.maydaygroup.org/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you all know where I&#8217;m coming from: I grew up, learned and taught music in the middle of the &#8220;un-lit&#8221; region in the middle of the western United States&#8211;between Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada&#8211;the Great Basin. I&#8217;m rural through and through and I&#8217;m also a music teacher and a teacher of music teachers. [...]]]></description>
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