Friday, February 2, 2007

Music instruction boosts academic performance

Music is a core academic subject of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (Title IX, Part A, Sec. 9101-11)—yet, drastic reductions in funding for music education in public schools across the country are wiping out music and other arts programs.

Music education is an effective antidote to low academic performance and student behavioral problems. A University of California (Irvine) study showed that after eight months of keyboard lessons, preschoolers showed a 46 percent boost in their spatial reasoning IQ.

Researcher Amy Graziano studied the effects of piano instruction and math software usage on 237 second graders. The group that took the piano lessons scored 27% higher on proportional math and fractions tests than the children who only used the math software.
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