Why Arts Education is Important
TED Ed: How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
TED Ed: How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins.mp4
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An Argument for Music Education
An Argument for Music Education
Nina Kraus is Hugh Knowles Professor at Northwestern University.
Travis White-Schwoch is a senior data analyst at Northwestern University.
Website: www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu Twitter: @brainvolts
"After evaluating the preponderance of the evidence, we are confident that music education should be part of every child’s curriculum. Music education manifestly supports child development in ways both easy and difficult to measure. Augmented sound processing in the brain makes young musicians better learners, which can generalize to benchmarks such as standardized tests and grades that society values in education."
View complete findings in the document to the right.
2020 June - ArgumentForMusicEducation.pdf