DPS bets on music, art to keep students in school

Detroit Public Schools plans to provide preschool to all of the city's 4-year-olds, offer music and art after school and allow schools to house educational and social services for 12 hours every day as part of an ambitious effort to attract and retain students.

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DPS bets on music, art to keep students in school

Detroit Public Schools plans to provide preschool to all of the city's 4-year-olds, offer music and art after school and allow schools to house educational and social services for 12 hours every day as part of an ambitious effort to attract and retain students.

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DPS hopes preschool, music programs will help fill buildings

Detroit Public Schools plans to provide preschool to all of the city's four-year-olds, offer music and art programs after school and allow schools to house educational and social services 12-hours, seven days a week as part of an effort to attract and retain students.

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Music lovers unite

Re the April 8 letter The music lives on: How can someone who grew up in New Jersey tell people who grew up in Miami that we don’t know live music? Besides the Hollywood Sportatorium, we also had the Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami baseball stadium, and now the Hard Rock where I watched ZZ Top bring down the house!

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Reinventing Wally’s: From House of Booze to house of music

Wally’s is in the midst of a reinvention, from a house of booze to a house of live music, and not just of the rock variety. Consider the handbill for the show this weekend: Black edgy lettering lists two punk-rock bands — Event Staph from Seattle and P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. of Portland. A photo in the middle reveals the headliner: Seattle indie-folksters Horde and the Harem looking wistfully into the …

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Youku Music to Live Webcast Psy’s New Debut

BEIJING, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Youku Tudou Inc, China's leading internet television company ("Youku Tudou"), today announced that it had signed a deal to be the exclusive China host …

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White House celebrates the sounds of Memphis soul

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said he'd been looking forward to a White House celebration of Memphis soul music for one reason.        

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