Farmington MS Band

Advocacy:

• Video: Wynton Marsalis on music advocacy

• "If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn something quickly, you forget it immediately." - Itzhak Perlman

• "70% of admissions officers of the Nation's major universities say high school credit and achievement in the arts are significant considerations for admission."  (BPOTM.org)

• "The College Entrance Examination Board found that students involved in public school music programs scored 107 points higher on the SAT."  (BPOTM.org)

• Video: The science behind effective practice

• "Lewis Thomas, physician and biologist, found that music majors comprise the highest percentage of accepted medical students (66%)."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Schools with music programs have a 90.2% graduation rate compared to schools without music education at 72.9%. -National Association for Music Education

• "Students who participate in music have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs among any group in our society."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Students involved in music get higher grades, have higher test scores, have higher graduation rates, and do better with foreign languages."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Low income students who receive arts education are 4x more likely to have high academic achievement and 3x more likely to have high attendance than those who don't." - The President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities