The results of a research project by Northwestern University, published in July 2015, suggest that music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain’s responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills.
Category: Academic achievement
Children learn better if music is part of curriculum – the multiplier effect
Katherine Damkohler, executive director of Education Through Music, writes in the Huffington Post website about the importance of music’s multiplier effects, beyond even it’s impact on academic achievements.
Anita Collins: music education key to raising literacy and numeracy standards
Anita Collins extols the value of music education and says, instead of agonising over why students can’t or won’t study maths or science perhaps we should concentrate on improving cognitive capacity via music lessons.
Music opens doors for young people in poverty – and schools hold the key
Guest columnists Dantes Rameau, co-founder and executive director of the Atlanta Music Project based in Georgia, USA, and Aisha Bowden, co-founder and director of AMPlify, the choral program of the Atlanta Music Project write about the value of arts and music to at-risk students.
Music education advocacy publication: how music helps students learn, achieve, and succeed
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) in Washington DC published a useful advocacy document for music education in 2011, funded by the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium. It was based on a review of an extensive body of high-quality, evidence-based studies that document student learning outcomes in and through music.
Richard Gill on the value of music education
Music educator Richard Gill argues the case for igniting the imagination through music and for making our own music. In this talk, he leads the TEDxSydney audience through some surprising illustrations of the relationship between music and our imagination.
Broader minded music education campaign
The US-based National Association for Music Education (NAfME)’s award winning Broader Minded advocacy campaign was created to offer a compelling and thorough case for providing music education experiences to all. To read more, click anywhere on this excerpt …
Longitudinal data on the effects of learning an instrument
The German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) is believed by its authors to be the best
available longitudinal data set for studying the effects of learning a musical instrument. Learning a musical instrument is associated with better cognitive skills and school grades as well as higher conscientiousness, openness, and ambition. Music improves cognitive and non-cognitive skills more than twice as much as sports, theatre or dance. To read more, click anywhere on this excerpt …
Active participation in music can rewire young people’s brains
Dr Nina Kraus’sstudy into the effects of music training on disadvantaged young people in Los Angeles has found that the level of participation – attendance at classes, practice – affects the changes that result in the brain and the related reading scores. To read more click anywhere on this excerpt …
What if … every child had access to music education
Another powerful presentation from academic Anita Collins, asking what the impact might be if a generation’s cognitive abilities are raised – and she gives evidence that it’s possible – through music education. To view the video, click anywhere on this excerpt …
Adolescents involved with music do better in school
Adolescents involved with music do better in school according to research by The Ohio State University. Taking part in music lessons in or out of school, and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematic achievement. To read more click anywhere on this excerpt …
High performing students do even better if they are enrolled in ongoing music classes
Research from Quebec in Canada, by Harvard University, found that high-performing students did even better when they were enrolled in ongoing music classes. To read more click anywhere on this excerpt …
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