Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, shares his opinions on the importance of teaching students about music that falls outside the Western tradition, and what the benefits are to students who are able to get such an education.

Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, discusses the synergies that can be achieved when music teachers continue to work as performing musicians.

Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, shares his views on the role of the arts in a well-rounded education, the importance of world music in music education, and his experiences as principal of a performing arts high school in Manhattan.

Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, shares his views on the role of the arts in a well-rounded education.

Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, shares his thoughts on whether students in the United States today are exposed to a sufficiently diverse array of musical styles.

Ira Shankman, Coordinator of Student Teaching Placement for the Music Education Department at New York University, discusses his time running Talent Unlimited, a performing arts high school located in Manhattan. He describes the tradeoffs and decisions that go into building the curriculum of an arts school, and how his school went about balancing their primary mission of teaching the arts with the need to provide a liberal arts education along more traditional lines at the same time.