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Workgroup Leaders:
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Final Report
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Holly Salisbury, Community Leader
Leslie Russ, Facilitator
Lisa Deffendall, Project Coordinator
William Parris, Staff Leader
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Project Headquarters
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Why Consider Music?
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Music is an essential part of our culture, crossing racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers.
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Research has linked early music experiences to the advanced development of spatial-temporal reasoning, and higher achievement in reading, mathematics and science.
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Music instruction enhances attitudes, social skills and creativity and helps to develop higher order thinking skills, including analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
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Music provides an outlet for creativity, self-expression and individual uniqueness, opening avenues of success for students who may have problems in other areas.
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Students who experience success in music develop more self-confidence and a willingness to take learning risks that translate into success in other curriculum areas.
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Music is another way of reaching kids, providing opportunities for self-expression and the development of both independence and collaboration.
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Making music engages, and is increasingly seen to strengthen, a vast array of brain power.
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Students who study music and the arts earn more academic honors and awards and score higher on the verbal and math portions of college entrance exams than students with no coursework or experience in the arts.
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