Benefits of Music Education
What good is music education anyway?
A growing body of research suggests that music education is not only intrinsically good, helping to enrich young lives, but also boosts overall student performance in and attachment to school.
Critical Links, a collection of 62 arts education studies and interpretive essays, establishes links between learning in the arts and improvements in reading and language development (basic reading skills, literacy, and writing); mathematics; fundamental cognitive skills and capacities; motivations to learn; effective social behavior; and school environment.
Critical Links was published May 16, 2002, by the Arts Education Partnership, a coalition of more than 100 national education, arts, philanthropic, and government organizations, administered by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Unfortunately, many critical links remain dormant for those students who need them the most.
Improving music education, boosting benefits
When music education includes genuine student participation in music creation and performance, taps into the students' musical passions, and includes those students typically excluded from the arts, benefits skyrocket. Learn more...
RIME’s Concert Curriculum and Disc Curriculum epitomize this new approach. Hopefully, one day all students will enjoy the enhanced benefits they provide.
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