Music education gives kids more opportunities in life “There are things in life that you can count that are not worth counting and things that you cannot count, that count.” - Albert Einstein Music education helps build academic skills, increases academic performance, improves test scores, improves behavior, reaches kids at risk of dropping out of school, improves self-esteem and builds the kind of creative skills that are...
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Vancouver Sun Issues and Ideas – Monday, May 3, 2010
By Bramwell Tovey
Excerpts from the Vancouver Sun’s Community of Interest Blog regarding cuts to education funding
Music Programs – The VSO Responds
“An education without a significant musical component is no education at all”, the maestro says.
The social...
Vancouver Sun Issues and Ideas – Wednesday, April 28, 2010
From article by Joel Bakan – Author of The Corporation, as well as a UBC law professor and jazz musician. His two teenage kids and his wife are also musicians.
“Music has as strong a case as any “core” part of the curriculum, and should be given an equal...
Vancouver Sun letter to the Editor Tuesday, April 20, 2010
From Tom Lavin, Leader, Powder Blues Band
Very few students would ever pick up a musical instrument, if not at the elementary level. Cutting band and orchestra programs from elementary schools will quickly result in the demise of high school programs.
Music teaches self-discipline and...