Technology can make music education more accessible, engaging, and fun. It supports diverse learning styles, empowers students to embrace their creativity, and provides them with valuable, hirable skills for the music industry and beyond.
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With the release of Christopher Nolan’s movie The Odyssey, modern retellings of Homer’s epics have boomed. These retellings can be great tools for helping students find ways into the story of Odysseus’s journey.
YoungArts is the only national organization that supports artists across 10 disciplines at all stages of development, beginning with the critical moment when they decide to pursue a life in the arts, and continuing throughout their careers. For many young people, applying to YoungArts may be the first step in affirming “I am an artist.”
What do polygons sound like? What rhythms do different fractions make? The unique music tools in Polypad provide a whole new dimension for students and teachers to interact with mathematics.
Counting down to America’s Semiquincentennial, Random House Children’s Books has unveiled Sing the 50 United States!—a picture book by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr.Seuss—to be published in June 2026. Editors discovered this rhyming celebration of the United States, a mnemonic name game emceed by the Cat in the Hat, among Ted Geisel’s personal papers at University of California San Diego’s Geisel Library.
GRAMMY Camp is back and bigger than ever! Led by a GRAMMY Camp faculty of music industry professionals and GRAMMY nominees and winners, GRAMMY Camp is the industry’s only summer camp dedicated to providing high school students with valuable insight from real-world music makers to give campers the best chance at achieving success in their chosen music career.
Renaissance Nearpod has launched the Flocabulary Student Voice Rap Contest, inviting students to create rap songs about historical figures who inspire them. The aim of the contest is to enhance student engagement and writing skills through hip-hop, with winning entries turned into Flocabulary video lessons and shared with 20,000 schools across the nation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we live, learn, and work—but most learners still don’t understand how AI works, what it can and can’t do, or how to use it responsibly and creatively. Without action, the same students who have historically lacked access to high-quality STEM education risk being excluded from the AI era too.
The Hamilton Education (EduHam) Program started as a collaborative effort between Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to use the musical Hamilton as a vehicle for educational enrichment, bringing history alive for young audiences through the arts.
Inspired by the production of Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen musical, and leveraging the power of the arts, the Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation (KDF) collaborates with community-based organizations to build and share multidisciplinary programming for historically underrepresented communities. The foundation will offer fellowships, free student tickets, and creative programs nationwide in partnership with the musical’s national tour.