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The Importance of Music Education
from:Music education is very important in our society and to our children and families today. There are so many different ways in which music affects our lives and our society. Do you really understand the importance of music education? Do you know why your children should be studying and learning about music? Do you understand how it can help their future?
Companies like the National Association for Music Education work hard to keep programs in public schools and other ways of teaching young people more about music. There are many different ways to motivate and enhance music education. For example, there are books that teach children how to read music and write musical notes and songs. You can also get videos, DVDs, tapes and more to help teach yourself or your child music.
The opening statement of “The Value and Quality of Arts Education: A Statement of Principles,” a document from the nation’s ten most important educational organizations, including the American Association of School Administrators, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, and the National School Boards Association states “Every student in the nation should have an education in the arts.” This could not be truer. It’s not likely that anyone will argue the importance of this but the problem is finding the time and the funding to get music education taught properly in schools.
People need to understand just how music education helps kids in schools and how it helps them prepare for the future. There are many ways that a music education can help your child succeed. It will help them with:
* School
* Society
* Life
* Relationships
* Developing intelligence
* And more
Music is a basic part of the fabric of our society. We face it many times every day in many different ways. Children that learn to understand music and grow up with an appreciation for it will fit in well and succeed in society that is based on music. Music can also help children succeed in school. They can do well in music related classes which helps them succeed in other classes as well. Music can also be a great tutoring school. An appreciation and knowledge of music can help them boost their confidence to do well on other things.
The better people understand the benefits of a music education, the better we can strive through getting it to all school-aged children. Music can help shape the type of person your child will be, how they respond and interact with other people and things around them and shape their personalities.
Music Education Schools News
Edison Celebration of Art raises $7,000 for art, music in schools (The News-Press)
Edison Celebration of Art Inc. has raised $7,000 for art and music programming in the Lee County School District.
Read more...Schools boast 39 new staffers: Personnel changes for the 2008-2009 academic year (Melrose Free Press)
Kids new to Melrose won’t be the only newbies in the schools this year. The school district has hired two new principals — at the Horace Mann and Roosevelt Elementary Schools — three new special education teachers, four new early childhood specialists, two new elementary-level music educators, and one new library media specialist.
Read more...Three days of fun-filled celebrations planned for 125 years of education (Narromine News)
Plans are well underway for the celebrations to commemorate 125 years of education at Narromine High and Narromine Public schools.
Read more...State Of Education: Hatrick Stresses Creativity, Languages For Students (Leesburg Today)
While the test scores recently released by Loudoun County Public Schools are impressive, educators also should focus on fostering creativity in their students, Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick told a group of more than 100 business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce's State of Education breakfast Wednesday morning.
Read more...District juggles art, music instruction (Pearland Journal)
To cut costs across the Pearland Independent School District and provide continuity in music education, elementary school art teachers will be replaced by music teachers by the fall of 2011, according to a district official.
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