Learning music really does make students smarter, new study shows
ABCA music educator set out to bust the myth that music makes kids smarter but was stunned by his own findings. Martin J. Bergee from the University of Kansas studied 1000 middle-school aged students to see if there was any link between music education and increased performance in other disciplines like maths and reading. Bergee believed that if he corrected his results for demographic and environmental influences like race, income, and education the much-vaunted link between music and broader academic performance would evaporate. After painstakingly controlling for demographic factors, Bergee and his co-author Kevin M. Weingarten were surprised to find that learning music did appear to make students better mathematicians and readers. According to music researcher and educator Anita Collins, Bergee’s research is a particularly thorough attempt to untangle the effects of music education from broader social and demographic factors.
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