NPD, a consumer market research group, reports video game sales in 2006 reached a new high of $12.5 billion, up19 percent from 2005. In the top 10 titles, the latest interactive sensation, Guitar Hero II, was the fifth-best-selling software game (featuring our very own editor/musicians, Christian Wissmuller and Eliahu Sussman), selling a staggering 1.3 million [...]
Approximately 6,000 music teachers leave the profession each year. According to education statistics from the U.S. Office of Education, 40 percent list job dissatisfaction as the main reason for leaving. Satisfaction, then, is the key to retaining teachers and helping to reduce stress to a level of toleration that helps to eliminate burnout. Burnout is [...]
School Web pages are becoming the norm in education today, and music teachers are rapidly experiencing the benefits of this mass communication. Schools and teachers can communicate rapidly and widely to people in and beyond their own communities like never before. During the past several months, School Band and Orchestra’s “Casting A Web Presence” column [...]
