Research by the University of British Colombia, Canada, shows that high school students who take music courses score significantly higher in other subjects than their non-musical peers.
Category: Numeracy, maths
Don’t stop the music – Australian TV series featuring Anita Collins
‘Don’t Stop the Music’ an Australian TV series looks at the value of music education with Dr Anita Collins, and follows the progress of Guy Sebastian and James Morrison as they mentor disadvantaged children in Perth, Australia.
A longitudinal study of the impact of the arts including music – NELS:88
At the Music Mark conference in the UK in November 2018, Susan Aykin, National Lead for Visual and Performing Arts at Ofsted (the English government’s education
How a Bradford primary school improved its Sats results with music
A primary school in Yorkshire has gone from being in special measures, to being in the top 10 per cent nationally for progress in reading, writing
VIDEO: Dr Nina Kraus explains the importance of music on the brain and learning
Dr Nina Kraus explains the vital role of music in learning at this ARTSpeaks event in Illinois in 2017.
INFOGRAPHIC – music and brain development
A useful infographic about the relationship between music education and brain development, thanks to Ward-Brodt Music Store, Wisconsin, USA.
The importance of music
Study after study proves that regardless of socioeconomic background, music-making students do better in school than those who have no music involvement. Whether it is improved spatial-temporal reasoning, which is integral to mathematics, or repetition of tunes and melodies, which is integral to verbal memory, learning, playing and creating music benefits children in many ways.
The importance of music education for schools – video from Children’s Music Workshop, LA
This 4m video by the Children’s Music Workshop in Los Angeles, California, presents a powerful argument for the inclusion of music in the school curriculum of children and young people.
Jamming with toddlers trumps getting stuck in a book
Playing music with toddlers could benefit their development even more than shared reading, according to University of Queensland research.
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.
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 …
Nonprofit demonstrates music education can produce increases in academic achievement
Researchers found that at ‘high needs’ schools in the Bronx with the ‘Education Through Music’ music programme, students scored 5.4 percentage points higher on state maths exams and 4.6 percentage points higher on English compared to students at similar schools without music education. To read more click anywhere on this excerpt …
