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Teaching Music October 2010The Obama administration has expressed support for a more comprehensive approach to education, and its FY 11 budget request includes a $38.9 million (or 17%) increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics. However, the budget request proposes to combine eight subject-specific grant programs into a single competi-tive grant program that would pit these subjects against one another for resources. Furthermore, Pres-ident Obama’s blueprint for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) equates college and career readiness with mastery of English language arts and mathematics stan-dards, continuing to prioritize these two subjects at the expense of all others. Recognizing the need for a collective response, ASCD assembled a diverse group of organizations rep-resenting a wide array of subject areas to develop con-sensus recommendations for how the federal government can better support a well-rounded educa-tion for each child. MENC was an integral part of this process and helped shape the recommendations, which call upon the Obama administration and Congress toInclude all elements of a well-rounded education in any de nition of college-, career-, and at large A Well-Rounded Education for All Executive Director, ASCD (formerly the For more than eight years, U.S. federal education policies have prioritized reading and math over other subjects. Indeed, the No Child Left Behind Act’s singular focus on student performance in reading and math has led to an alarming narrowing of the curriculum, hampering our ability to prepare students for success in the increasingly global marketplace and in our own complex, ever-changing society. GeographyWell-Rounded + 6_Atlarge.indd 1 9/10/10 12:09:22 PM COPYRIGHT © 2010 BY MENC: NATIOAL SSOIATIO FOR MUSI EDUATIOD WITH PISSIO. NOT FOR FUTHR US WITHOUT WRITTENISSIO FRO MENC. TEACHING MUSIC IS ATD FOR MENC BY INNEARTNERS, LLC.HEMERA/KSTO