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The Benefits of Music Education

BENEFITS OF A BAND EDUCATION: OPENING DOORS TO NEW POSSIBILITIES:

- Scholarships (MANY colleges provide scholarships to students who will participate in a band class)

- Able to have an active part in community events

- Making music for the rest of your life! (career, hobby, community music groups, church groups)

- High School Band!

- Allows an opportunity for social interaction in a new school

“Music Makes You Smarter!”

Studies show…

“Students who participate in school band or orchestra have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among any group in our society.”~ H. Con. Res. 266, United States Senate

“Students who were exposed to music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in the conventional manner.” ~ Neurological Research

“High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school.”~ National Educational Longitudinal Study

“Music enhances the process of learning. The systems they nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attention, cognitive, emotional and motor capacities, are shown to be the driving forces behind all other learning.” ~ Konrad, R.R., Empathy, Arts and Social Studies

“Students of lower socioeconomic status who took music lessons in grades 8-12 increased their math scores significantly as compared to non-music students. But just as important, reading, history, geography and even social skills soared by 40%.” ~ Gardiner, Fox, Jeffrey and Knowles

“The College Entrance Examination Board found that students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math than students with no arts participation.”

“Music training helps under-achievers. Students lagging behind in scholastic performance caught up to their fellow students in reading and surpassed their classmates in math by 22% when given music instruction over seven months.”~Nature

“Children who have received music instruction scored higher marks on tests of their spatial and arithmetic skills.” ~ Rauscher, F.H., Shaw, G.L., Levine, L.J., Wright, E.L., Dennis, W.R., and Newcomb, R., Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial temporal reasoning

“A study of 7,500 university students revealed that music majors scored the highest reading scores among all majors including English, biology, chemistry and math.”- The Case for Music in Schools

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

- Victor Hugo

"Music can change the world because it can change people"

- Bono