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NEA "Jazz in the Schools" Curriculum
             "Jazz in the Schools" is a new web-based, multimedia curriculum from the
             National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that explores jazz as an indigenous
             American art form and as a means to understand American history. The
             five-unit, web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit are available free of charge to
             high school teachers of social studies, U.S. history, and music. Lesson titles
             include "The Advent of Jazz: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century," "The Jazz
             Age & The Swing Era," "Bebop & Modernism," "From the New Frontier to the
             New Millennium," and "Jazz: An American Story."

            Each unit includes a teachers' guide with teacher tips, cross-curricular
            activities, and assessment methods, as well as student activities, period
            photographs, video footage, related musical excerpts, and links to additional
            resources. The curriculum was produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, a nonprofit
            arts organization dedicated to jazz, and supported by a $100,000 grant from
            the Verizon Foundation.

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