by Mark Goff | Dec 25, 2015 | Music Truths
Majorities of both parents and teachers see a myriad of social-emotional, academic, 21st century skill, community, and physical and health benefits from music education—especially social-emotional benefits ~ NAMM Foundation and Grunwald Associates LLC (2015). Striking...
by Mark Goff | Dec 24, 2015 | Music Truths
Music has been found to stimulate parts of the brain, and studies have demonstrated that music enhances the memory of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, including a study conducted at UC Irvine, which showed that scores on memory tests of Alzheimer’s...
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....
