Article Re-Print: The Kids Are Alright (School Music Program)
Kids Got the Groove: LaVenture Middle School Music Programs Offer Students Opportunities Originally published on World Music Central, 2010. Whole Music Experience supports music for early childhood development and K-12. In this support you will find more article reprints and reviews with this focus on this blog. Although society benefits from a high-tech world, many K-12 school districts in the US have placed a greater emphasis on math and science skills, than on the arts and music so that students will be able to compete in the high-tech work environment. Some of the smaller school districts lack music programs and other schools that do provide musical programs, do so with a tight and shaky budget in the current economy. Research presented in books by Neurologist Daniel Levitan (This is Your Brain on Music), and Don Campbell’s 1997 book, The Mozart Effect that musical training in early childhood improves learning skills, especially in math and language. Introdu...