What does Music Education actually do?
“The Case for Music in the Schools,” Phi Delta Kappa"
(Arete Music Academy. "Statistical benefits of music in education." Arete Music Academy. Accessed July 17, 2014)
- Music majors are the most likely group of college grads to be admitted to medical school.~Lewis Thomas,
- A study of 7,500 university students revealed that music majors scored the highest reading scores among all majors including English, biology, chemistry and math. ~ The Case for Music in the Schools, Phi Delta Kappa
- Students who were exposed to music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in the conventional manner.-Neurological Research and Music Education Statistics
- The schools that produced the highest academic achievement in the United States today are spending 20% to 30% of the day on the arts, with special emphasis on music. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
“The Case for Music in the Schools,” Phi Delta Kappa"
- Research made between music and intelligence concluded that music training is far greater than computer instruction in improving children’s abstract reasoning skills. - Neurological Research, Vol. 19
(Arete Music Academy. "Statistical benefits of music in education." Arete Music Academy. Accessed July 17, 2014)
- African-American parents (76 percent) and Hispanic parents (75 percent) are significantly more likely than Caucasian parents (67 percent) to enroll their children in school music classes where opportunities exist, and they are more interested in their children participating in virtually every type of music class in or out of school
- Learning a musical language could have cognitive benefits similar to those evident in bilingual children. Although this view has intuitive appeal because music and language are both auditory communication systems, the positive effects of bilingualism are evident for fluid intelligence (i.e., executive control) but not for crystallized intelligence (e.g., knowledge acquired through experience, such as vocabulary), whereas the effects of music lessons appear to extend to both domains