Over the past two decades music education has been at the mercy of the firing squad, with constant attempts by those in power to diminish or cut music completely out of children’s education. Some believe that music is an expendable area toward which needless amounts of money are going, while others argue that the final element in a well-rounded education lies with music education and the arts. If the American people want their children to succeed, they need to keep music education in school’s curriculums. Since the beginning of recorded history music has been praised by the great people of history such as Einstein, Beethoven, Plato, and among others.
Although Americans have never regarded music education with such esteem as those in the past, over the past ten years legislators and school officials have been systematically cutting back and doing away with music and art programs. ... The argument they continue to support is that music is a nice activity to participate in, but with tightening budgets seems to be expendable.
Many studies since the 80’s have been made to support the effects of music education on children, although with all the compelling evidence the legislation still continue to reduce or cut the programs from curriculums.
Since the late 1970’s at least a dozen national reports were written to state the problems with American schools and also to give recommendations on the education reform. In the 1977 the report Coming to Our Senses, supported the importance of arts education in public schools. ... in Walker 19) This report is just one of many reports and studies that show very clearly that schooling in music and the arts helps students become better overall students.
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