Music Advocacy Facts

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The National Center for Education Statistics reports that more than half of the nation's middle school students and a quarter of its high school students are learning core academic subjects from teachers who lack certification in those subjects, or who did not major in them in college, or both.

From: Catherine Gewertz, "Qualifications of Teachers Falling Short," Education Week (June 12, 2002). Source cited in No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children.

Available here: National Commission On Teaching and America's Future

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