Pacific Standard -Clearly, the notion that music education is an expendable frill has yet to die, even as the research showing a link between musical training and academic achievement keeps getting stronger. In February, that association was demonstrated in a rigorous study of 30,000 Miami middle-schoolers.
Now it has been confirmed in an even larger (and open-access) study of 112,000 students in British Columbia. The latest study finds that high schoolers who take music courses have higher test scores than their peers in three core subjects.
"Public secondary-school students who took school music courses, on average, outperformed their peers who took no school music courses," they report. "Participating in instrumental music appears to be particularly beneficial."
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