MUSIC EDUCATION FACTS
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"An Education in Music is an Education for Life"
FACTS ABOUT MUSIC AND MUSIC EDUCATION
Music Students Are Scoring
Music students are outperforming non-music students on the Scholastic Aptitude test (SAT). College-bound seniors with coursework or experience in music performance scored 52 points higher on the verbal portion and 37 points higher on the math portion of the SAT than students with no coursework or experience in the arts. (Source: The College Board, Sept. 1997)
Music is Beating Computers at Enhancing early childhood development.
Music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children's abstract reasoning skills necessary for learning math and science. learning music at an early age causes long-term enhancement of spatial-temporal reasoning. (Source: Francis Rauscher, Ph.D., Gordon Shaw, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 1997)
Studying Music Strengthens Student's Academic Performance
Rhode Island studies have indicated that sequential, skill-building instruction in music and art integrated with the rest of the curriculum, can greatly improve children's performance in reading and math (Source: "Learning improved by Arts training: by Martin Gardiner, Alan Fox., Faith Knowles and Dorina Jeffrey, nature, may 23, 1996)
Music and Spatial task Performance: A Causal Relationship
Music lessons, and even simply listening
to music, can enhance spatial performance, a critical higher-brain function
necessary to perform complex tasks including mathematics. (Source: Francis
Rauscher, Ph.D., Gordon Shaw, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 1994)
Compiled by Music Educators national Conference