Think Twice Before Cutting K-12 Music Budgets
Here's an article where a Northwestern University neuroscientist links music to everyday listening task enhancement By Wendy Leopold EVANSTON, Ill. --- At a Feb. 20 press briefing at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting, a
Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has
profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a
mainstay of K-12 education. “Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in
noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language
that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice,” says Nina
Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and
Communication Sciences at Northwestern University. “Cash-strapped school districts are making a mistake when they cut
music from the K-12 curriculum,” says Kraus, director of the Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory in Northwestern’s School of Communication. http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/02/kraus.html
Wendy Leopold is the education editor. Contact her at
w-leopold@northwestern.edu
Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting, a
Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has
profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a
mainstay of K-12 education. “Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in
noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language
that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice,” says Nina
Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and
Communication Sciences at Northwestern University. “Cash-strapped school districts are making a mistake when they cut
music from the K-12 curriculum,” says Kraus, director of the Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory in Northwestern’s School of Communication. http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/02/kraus.html
Wendy Leopold is the education editor. Contact her at
w-leopold@northwestern.edu
