Our responce to cuts to music education
An Open letter to the School boards of BC The importance of Grade Seven Band in the music curriculum of the province of BC. This letter has been written in Continue Reading →
Category: child development
The Benefits of Music Education
Our Friends at the Royal Conservatory of Music have published a new brochure outlining the benefits of Music Education. You can find a pdf version on their website here.
New Evidence links music education to higher test scores
Does studying music boost students’ overall test scores? Recent research casts doubt on that belief, concluding that the link between music education and good grades appears to reflect the impressive nature of Continue Reading →
Why musical genius comes easier to early starters
Good news for pushy parents. If you want your child to excel musically, you now have better justification for starting their lessons early. New evidence comes from brain scans of 36 Continue Reading →
Is Music the engine behind language acquisition?
Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the Continue Reading →
Bribing the Kids, Research shows Stickers Work!
Ah! All of you piano teachers out there who give away “stickers” to your young students to positively enforce the development of good practice habits and good technique, well you Continue Reading →
Middle School Music Lessons Enhance Algebra Skills
A look at Maryland students’ achievement levels finds a correlation between music instruction in grades six to eight and success at algebra. Algebra, according to the Great Schools website, “is Continue Reading →
The Creativity Crisis
For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when Continue Reading →
HELP: the Human Early Learning Partnership
It is sometimes difficult to get a clear picture of changing demographics of the communities we serve. One such tool that maybe useful for community music schools is the data Continue Reading →