Music: To Provide Quality Music Education Now, Schools Could Learn From the Past
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In the marginalized world of music education, a good deal of serious thinking needs to be done.
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Parents who spend time and money to  teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study  shows young children who take music lessons have better  memories than their nonmusical peers.
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The nationâs schools have made âconsiderable improvementsâ in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey.
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A hipper niche of kid music is encouraging a curious form of parental connoisseurship, where ÂHigh FidelityÂ meets high chairs.
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NEW YORK  - Music lessons may give a boost  to the IQ scores of children, even if they're less than musical  prodigies, new research suggests.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
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Learning from past mistakes and looking to future opportunities.
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Pupils in England are being promised at least five hours of "high-quality cultural activities" a week.
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Music lessons trigger increases in the IQs of 6-year-old children, according to one of the most thorough studies on the subject. Although previous research had hinted that musical training was associated with
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By Ed Marcum  It's a true sign of the times: Halls High School madrigal alumni are organizing a reunion/concert in a way that wouldn't have been possible several years ago.
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Schools in England have been sent advice on how to teach children good spoken English.
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Game makers need to spend time to make sure that music adds to the playing experience.
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For nearly six years, the federal government has defined school success mainly by how many students pass state reading and math tests. But a growing number of educators and lawmakers are pushing to give more weight to graduation rates, achievement in science and history and even physical education.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.
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Students at Salem College, a small liberal arts school for women in Winston-Salem, N.C., have studied the songs of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
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Pupils could soon face tests of their creativity under plans to boost the kind of "soft skills".