Music Advocacy Facts

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Students who were significantly involved in music during middle and high school showed higher levels of math proficiency by their senior year regardless of socioeconomic status.

From: "Involvement in the Arts and Human Development: General Involvement and Intensive Involvement in Music and Theater Arts." Los Angeles, CA: The Imagination Project at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 1999.

Available here: MENC - Benefits of Music Education Brochure, Spring 2002