Music Lessons May Raise Kids' IQs a Few Points
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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 world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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Music lessons can improve memory and learning ability in young children, research shows.
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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Some babies who do not have full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome can still develop IQ problems, a new study indicates.
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Children on the Playing for Success sports venue learning scheme show mixed long-term results, a study says.
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When scientists studied babies&#39; hearing they found the left ear was more attuned to music and the right better at picking up speech-like sounds.
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Songwriter Guy Chambers helps schools introduce lessons on music piracy and copyright.
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NEW YORK  - Children with hearing problems,  even minimal, are significantly more likely to have academic  problems, experts said Thursday.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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Pupils could soon face tests of their creativity under plans to boost the kind of "soft skills".
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Yep, your 7-year-old knows more than you Children are becoming tech-savvy from a younger age, a new study has discovered.â¦
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NEW YORK  - The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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Parental choice in schools pushes up standards but could increase social division, research suggests.
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Research finds that children with some form of pre-school education do better at primary school than those kept at home.