Musical Education in Our Schools

Musical Education In our Schools

Justin Jones

Brandman University

LBSU 310

3/23/2012

Music in the Schools

The Correlations With Music And Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores

Musical instruction helps students with their SAT scores. According to Music education online, "SAT scores of students who took part in music instruction surpassed students with no music training."(para 7). Learning music and composing music helps grow our IQ and improve test skills, thus improving our SAT scores in a number of ways.

First correlation. The first way music helps improve SAT scores is by helping our brain improve its cognitive system. Music helps our brains connectivity which improves our concentration, memory, auditory processing, visual processing, and our logic and reasoning skills. Most of these are used in learning academia therfor learning music helps us learn and reverberate what we learned. It helps us with problem solving skills by helping our reasoning and logic skills. This is a big step in improving SAT scores.

Second correlation. Another way it helps us improve SAT scores is by improving our emotional health. Improving our emotional health helps us concentrate on studying and helps us with our social skills needed to learn in class. The more we learn the better our SAT scores will be. Helping our emotional health also helps with test anxiety because we will be able to process the stress more effectively.

Third correlation. The last correlation im going to mention is the improved perceptual-motor skills. According to Jenson, "These qualities can positively influence a variety of skills, especially listening and reading." (pg 32.) Learning the listening and reading skills is important in processing information and learning to analyze what we read will help us throughout life and during the SAT testing.

The Value of "Music & SAT Scores"

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Musical Education For Every Child?

Looking at the benefits of music with the increase in academic scores, every student should be required to take music lessons. Many people argue that musical education is secondary to academic learning but they do not know the benefits of the academic improvement one gets from music.

Why or why not? We need to have musical education for every child because of the increase in not only academic levels but the social development it presents as well. Working with children with autism has given me a certain perspective that we need to develop social