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you know……?
The U.S. Department of labor issued a report in 1991 urging schools to teach for the future workplace. The skills they recommend (working in teams, communication, self-esteem, creative thinking, imagination and invention) are exactly those learned in school music and arts programs.
On SAT tests, the national average scores were 427 on the verbal and 476 on math. At the same time, music students averaged 465 on the verbal and 497 on the math – 38 and 21 points higher, respectively.
A recent Rockerfeller foundation Study discovered that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical schools, followed by biochemistry and the humanities.
The American Music Conference reports that music-makers are more likely to go on to college and other higher education than non-music makers ….52% more likely.
The AMC also reports that music-makers watch less TV and are more optimistic about their futures than non- music makers.
A comprehensive series of skill tests were run on 5,154 fifth graders in all 75 of the Albuquerque, NM elementary schools. In EVERY SINGLE test area, kids who were learning to play a musical instrument received higher marks than their classmates. And, the longer the school children had been in the instrumental programs, the higher they scored.
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