by Mark Goff | Dec 22, 2015 | Music Truths
Students at schools with excellent music programs had higher English test scores across the country than students in schools with low-quality music programs; this was also true when considering mathematics. ~ Journal for Research in Music Education, June 2007; Dr....
by Mark Goff | Dec 21, 2015 | Music Truths
Studies have shown that young children who take keyboard lessons have greater abstract reasoning abilities than their peers, and that these abilities improve over time with sustained training in music. ~ Rauscher, F.H. , & Zupan, M., “Classroom keyboard...
by Mark Goff | Dec 18, 2015 | Music Truths
In the past, secondary students who participated in a music group at school reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances (tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs). ~ 5 VH1: Save the Music. “The Benefits of Music Education.” VH1: Save the...
by Mark Goff | Dec 17, 2015 | Music Truths
Research indicates the brain of a musician, even a young one, works differently than that of a nonmusician. “There’s some good neuroscience research that children involved in music have larger growth of neural activity than people not in music training....
by Mark Goff | Dec 15, 2015 | Music Truths
Music enhances fine motor skills, or the ability to use small, acute muscle movements to write, use a computer, and perform other physical tasks. ~ Forgeard, 2008; Hyde, 2009; Schlaug et al. 2005, “The Effects of Musical Training on Structural Brain Development...
