Music Advocacy Facts
A study of 62 Wisconsin kindergartners found that students who received two 20-minute keyboard lessons per week for four months scored significantly higher on spatial-temporal tests than students who received no music.
From: "Classroom Keyboard Instruction Improves Kindergarten Children's Spatial-Temporal Performance: A Field Experiment," Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000, 15, (2): 215-228
Available here: The Arts Education Partnership - Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
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