There’s a lot of content out there about the benefits of music education. That’s why we started Music Education Works – so you could find
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Advocacy – music in schools latest news & campaigns
[LATEST UPDATE: 9/7/2020] This post featuring the latest news and reports on music education and music education advocacy will be updated each time we add news and campaigns about music in schools. This page focuses on the UK – international pages to follow. Please comment below if there’s anything you think we need to add.
Music for Education & Wellbeing Podcast: Making music education a core subject in the poorest schools in New York – Education Through Music
In this new podcast, Anita Holford, co-editor of Music Education Works, is talking with Penny Swift and Katherine Damkohler of Education Through Music (ETM).
Music for Education & Wellbeing Podcast: Dr Anita Collins on music & the brain
A new podcast by Anita Holford, co-editor of Music Education Works, features Australian music educator and researcher, Dr Anita Collins. You may know Anita from her TED Ed lesson, How playing an instrument benefits your brain, and her TEDx talk, What if every child had access to music education from birth? And more recently, she’s starred in the Australian version of a British TV show, ‘Don’t Stop the Music’.
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
‘Schools are still killing creativity’ says Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson’s new book, ‘You, Your Child and School’ is a useful book for anyone advocating music education and is aimed directly at parents.
