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Slide 1: The Importance of Music Education in the Public Schools Why We Cannot Afford Not to Afford
Slide 2: Why Loss of Music Curriculum?     No Child Left Behind law – music core subject No Child Left Behind law requires all students to be performing at their grade level in math and language by 2014 Schools must demonstrate progress Federal focus on math and language make music education expendable
Slide 3: IFMR 2001 Japan, Netherlands, and Hungary place high value on music  Music training occurs at the elementary and middle school level in both vocal and instrumental  All 3 countries are the leading countries in science achievement 
Slide 4: American Musical Conference  Researchers are finding correlations between  Making  music Deepest workings of the brain  Research has found a link between  active music making  increased language development  math ability  improved school grades  better social skills  spatial-temporal reasoning (helps problem solving)
Slide 5: Research by Amy B. Graziano, Matthew Peterson, Gordon Shaw   Preschool children given 6 months of piano lessons improved dramatically in spatial temporal reasoning than those children who did not receive piano lessons Children given piano lessons along with a video math game scored considerably higher in proportional math and fraction test than those children who only received the video math game
Slide 6:  Georgia & Texas Universities found correlations between  Better performance in math, science, and language arts  Number of years of instrumental music lessons   East Texas State University Study, Daryl Erick Trent University of Sarasota Study, Jeffrey Lynn Kluball  2nd & 3rd grade students taught fractions using music rhythm notations  100%  higher scores on fractions tests than students taught traditional method Neurological Research, March 15, 1999
Slide 7: In 2004 a large scale, comprehensive research study of music lessons enhancing IQ was performed at the University of Toronto  The Results included:   Those students receiving music lessons had larger increase in IQ than students who did not receive music lessons
Slide 8: 2005 Stanford Report  2004 research at Stanford’s Psychology Department and Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging  Differentiate   rapid syllable changes  Differentiate different combination of pitches 85% accuracy for children who studied music 50% accuracy for children who didn’t study music Three tone sequence accuracy 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Recognition accuracy Musician Non-Musician
Slide 9: 2005 Stanford Report  Musical training at a young age  Trains the brain to work efficiently for language processing  Positive affect on phonetic skills  Helps with verbal memory
Slide 10:  McGill University Study  Self-esteem lessons  Improved pattern recognition and mental imaging  Higher SAT scores for High School music students 57 points higher on verbal  41 points higher on math  improved when given piano  More academic honors and awards  Higher percentage of “A’s” and “B’s”
Slide 11:  Study of 7,500 college students  Music majors highest reading scores  Scored higher than English, biology, chemistry, math majors Music majors comprise high number accepted into medical school  Emotionally healthier 
Slide 12: Music is an integral part of our life from birth to death Lullabies  Wedding music selection  Funeral hymns  Seemingly permanent attachment of ipods 
Slide 13: Social Benefits  Choir, Band, and Orchestra rehearsals and performances  Safe and Healthy activity  Helps keep kids away from  Drugs  Alcohol  Sex
Slide 14: University of Florida Study  Survey of 1,800 music teachers found children not being taught  Patriotic songs  Folk tunes  Folk music national treasure helps children  Country’s  History  People  Culture values
Slide 17: Works Cited  "Fiscal Crisis Could Nip Music in Schools." CNN. 21 July 2003. 20 Nov. 2007 <http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/07/21/music.education.ap/index.html>. "How Music Can Dramatically Affect Your Child's Development and Life-Time Success" Foundation for Universal Music Literacy. 1-32. 21 Nov. 2007 <http://www.pianowizard.com/media/pdfs/ChildrenandMusicResearch.pdf>. "Music Research." American Music Conference. 2007. 27 Nov. 2007 <http://www.amc-music.com/research.htm>. "Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for Music Instruction: Grades Pre K-12." The National Association for Music Education. Apr. 1994. 20 Nov. 2007 <http://www.menc.org/publication/books/otl.html>. Schellenberg, E. Glenn. "Music Lessons Enhance IQ." Psychological Science 15.8 (2004): 511-514. 27 Nov. 2007 <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/musiciq.pdf>. Trei, Lisa. "Musical Training Helps Language Processing, Studies Show." Stanford News Service. 15 Nov. 2005. Stanford University. 20 Nov. 2007 <http://newsservice.stanford.edu/news/2005/november16/music-111605.html>.     