| Music Education is an important part of every child's | | | | This education reinforces all other curricula by |
| learning experience and is older than high schools | | | | connecting concepts and processes to everyday life. |
| sports, yet high school sports are increasing while | | | | Music, we say, provides so many benefits that are |
| music education may be soon demised. | | | | applicable to the more traditional academic subjects, |
| Education, and particularly mandatory education, is an | | | | that it is a basic. |
| effective agent in the formation of an individual's | | | | Music study teaches the value of sustained effort and |
| tastes, preferences and value systems. Schools try to | | | | it's positive impact on learning is becoming well known, |
| focus on the more important academic classes | | | | and one of the groups trumpeting that message is |
| because of the high testing standards they must now | | | | NAMM, the International Music Products |
| meet. | | | | Association. NAMM can help provide support for your |
| However, music education is an important aspect of | | | | school's music cirriculum. |
| student growth and is not a luxury, but a necessity to | | | | Music Education is vital to a well-rounded education. It |
| all children. Music education is a broad-based discipline, | | | | develps the intellect and music education has long |
| using words and phrases from many areas of study, | | | | been anecdotally linked to increased intellectual ability. |
| including psychology, sociology, physics, anatomy, | | | | Students, particularly high-risk students, do well in arts |
| philosophy, research, technology, and general education. | | | | education classes yet suffer when confined to learning |
| Music education is vital to a well-rounded education | | | | through a more traditional curriculum. |
| and is an investment of time, effort, and money, which | | | | Students learn to count, keep a steady rhythm, and |
| can result in a lifetime of enjoying music. Music has the | | | | how to multiply and divide (to figure out how long each |
| ability to facilitate language acquisition, reading | | | | note is). Students also use science to help them |
| readiness, and general intellectual development; to | | | | discover what sounds good together and what |
| foster positive attitudes and to lower truancy in middle | | | | doesn't. |
| and high school; to enhance creativity; and to promote | | | | They also need science to understand something |
| social development, personality adjustment, and | | | | called the "overtone series," which Pythagorus came |
| self-worth. | | | | up with around Medieval times. Students learn to |
| Music also helps with math and science and also brings | | | | understand a little bit of Italian in order to interpret the |
| higher thinking to our children. Music and education | | | | markings in their music. |
| have always gone hand in hand. Music influences all | | | | They also learn an incredible amount of coordination |
| areas of our lives, and as each student masters the | | | | through music -- it isn't unlike being an athlete. Students |
| skills and discipline used in music he/she will also build | | | | that study the arts learn to think creatively. Learning to |
| greater confidence, poise, and sense of | | | | play an instrument may also keep children out of |
| accomplishment that will pervade all aspects of life. | | | | trouble by giving them something to do after school. |