January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. California and the rest of the nation ...

A few weeks ago, I got an email from one of the moderators of the 20 million-member “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) community on Reddit. He had recently read some of my work and asked if I’d be willing to ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) A 2022 study by the Rand Corporation found that nearly every school district in America had to combine or cancel classes ...