This data is exerpted from Music Makes the Difference: Music, Brain Development, and Learning which is MENC publication #1668 and may be purchased at the MENC website at Arts Education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence. Allen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T Corporation, in “America’s Culture Begins with Education”) In short, it will help them as they grow smarter to also grow wiser.
“A grounding in the arts will help our children to see to bring a uniquely human perspective to science and technology. Augustine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Martin Marietta Corporation.) “The arts enrich communities and employees, and also stimulate the kind of intellectual curiosity our company needs to stay competitive.” (Source: Norma R. Deliege (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd international conference for music perception and cognition (pp. “In vivo morphometry of interhemispheric asymmetry and connectivity in musicians.” In I. Also, musicians had a thicker corpus callosum, the nerve fibers that connect the two halves of the brain.
Researchers in Leipzig discovered through the use of brain scans that musicians had larger planum temporale, the region of the brain associated with reading skills. Distributed neural network underlying musical sight reading and keyboard performance. Researches concluded that sight-reading musical scores and playing music “activate regions in all four of the cortex’s lobes” and “parts of the cerebellum are also activated during those tasks.” (Source: J. The University of Montreal researched brain imaging techniques to study brain activity during musical tasks. Research made between music and intelligence concluded that music training is far greater than computer instruction in improving children’s abstract reasoning skills.(Source: Shaw, Rauscher, Levine, Wright, Dennis and Newcomb, “Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children’s spatial-temporal reasoning,” Neurological Research, vol. (Source: As reported in “The Case for Music in the Schools,” Phi Delta Kappan, February 1994.) Lewis Thomas, physician and biologist, found that music majors comprise the highest percentage of accepted medical students at 66%. (Source: NELS:88 First Follow-up, 1990, National Center for Education Statistics, Washington D.C.) A higher percentage of music participants received As, As/Bs, and Bs than non-music participants. (Source: 1999 College-Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers, The College Entrance Examination Board, Princeton, New Jersey)Īccording to the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, music students received more academic honors and awards than non-music students. Music appreciation students scored 61 points higher on the verbal and 42 points higher on the math.
Music performance students scored 53 points higher on the verbal and 39 points higher on the math. Students taking courses in music performance and music appreciation scored higher in the SAT than students with no arts participation. (Source: American Arts Alliance Fact Sheet, October 1996 ) The arts produce jobs, generating an estimate $37 billion with a return of $3.4 billion in federal income taxes.
(Source: Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do, 1983, The College Board, New York ) The arts are one of the six subject areas in which the College Board recognizes as essential in order to thrive in college. (Source: Getting Ready for College Early: A Handbook for Parents of Students in the Middle and Junior High School Years, U.S. DOE also suggests one year of Visual and Performing Arts for college-bound high school students. In addition, it plays a part in developing “children’s intellectual development.” The U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
