Text Box: Why Music? Text Box: Students who can perform complex rhythms can also make faster and more precise corrections in many academic and physical situations. —“Rhythm seen as key to music’s evolutionary role in human intellectual development”, Center for Timing, Coordination, and Motor Skills.

Text Box: The College Board identifies the arts as one of the six basic academic subject areas students should study in order to succeed in college.

 

Text Box: First-grade students who had daily music instruction scored higher on creativity tests than a control group without music instruction. —K.L. Wolff, “The Effects of General Music Education on the Academic Achieve-ment, Perceptual-Motor Development, Creative Thinking, and School Attendance of First-Grade Children”

Text Box: In a Scottish study, one group of elementary students received musical training, while another other group received an equal amount of discussion skills training. After six (6) months, the students in the music group achieved a significant increase in reading test scores, while the reading test scores of the discussion skills group did not change. —Sheila Douglas &  Peter Willatts,  Journal of Research in Reading

Text Box: College admissions officers continue to cite participation in music as an important factor in making admissions decisions. They claim that music participation demonstrates time management, creativity, expression, and open-mindedness. —Carl Hartman, AP “Arts May Improve Students’ Grades”

Text Box: Students who are rhythmically skilled also tend to better plan, sequence, and coordinate actions in their daily lives. —“Cassily Column”, TCAMS Professional Resource Center

Text Box: In a Columbia University study, students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with teachers and peers, more self-confident, and better able to express their ideas. These benefits exist across socioeconomic levels. —The Arts Education Partnership

Text Box: A ten-year study indicates that students who study music achieve higher test scores, regardless of socioeconomic background. —Dr. James Catterall, UCLA

Text Box: Research shows when the arts are included in a student’s curriculum, reading, writing, and math scores improve. —J. Buchen Milley, A. Oderlund, and J. Mortarotti, “The Arts: An Essential Ingredient in Education,” The California Council of the Fine Arts Deans

 

 
Text Box: Why Music? Text Box: Students who can perform complex rhythms can also make faster and more precise corrections in many academic and physical situations. —“Rhythm seen as key to music’s evolutionary role in human intellectual development”, Center for Timing, Coordination, and Motor Skills.

Text Box: The College Board identifies the arts as one of the six basic academic subject areas students should study in order to succeed in college.

 

Text Box: First-grade students who had daily music instruction scored higher on creativity tests than a control group without music instruction. —K.L. Wolff, “The Effects of General Music Education on the Academic Achieve-ment, Perceptual-Motor Development, Creative Thinking, and School Attendance of First-Grade Children”

   

Text Box: In a Columbia University study, students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with teachers and peers, more self-confident, and better able to express their ideas. These benefits exist across socioeconomic levels. —The Arts Education Partnership

Text Box: A ten-year study indicates that students who study music achieve higher test scores, regardless of socioeconomic background. —Dr. James Catterall, UCLA

Text Box: Students in two Rhode Island elementary schools who were given an enriched, sequential, skill-building music program showed marked improvement in reading and math skills. Students in the music program who had started out behind the control group achieved statistical equality in reading and pulled ahead in math. —Gardiner, Fox, Jeffrey, and Knowles, Nature

Text Box: A two-year Swiss study involving 1,200 children in 50 schools showed that students involved in the music program were better at languages, learned to read more easily, showed an improved social climate, demonstrated more enjoyment in school, and had a lower stress level than non-music students. - E.W. Weber, M. Spychiger, and J.L. Patry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Students who can perform complex rhythms can also make faster and more precise corrections in many academic and physical situations. —“Rhythm seen as key to music’s evolutionary role in human intellectual development”, Center for Timing, Coordination, and Motor Skills.

Text Box: The College Board identifies the arts as one of the six basic academic subject areas students should study in order to succeed in college.

Text Box: A study of elementary students in an arts-based program concluded that students’ math test scores rose as their time in arts education classes increased. —“Arts Exposure and Class Performance,” Phi Delta Kappan

Text Box: First-grade students who had daily music instruction scored higher on creativity tests than a control group without music instruction. —K.L. Wolff, “The Effects of General Music Education on the Academic Achieve-ment, Perceptual-Motor Development, Creative Thinking, and School Attendance of First-Grade Children”

   

Text Box: In a Columbia University study, students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with teachers and peers, more self-confident, and better able to express their ideas. These benefits exist across socioeconomic levels. —The Arts Education Partnership

Text Box: A ten-year study indicates that students who study music achieve higher test scores, regardless of socioeconomic background. —Dr. James Catterall, UCLA