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School administrators needing to trim budgets often look first to music courses, because the general belief is that students who devote time to music rather than math, science, and English, will ...

What does maturing mean after elementary school? Here’s one thing it shouldn’t mean: dropping music at school. My colleagues and I at the University of B.C. studied over 110,000 public school students ...

Learning to play a musical instrument relies on understanding concepts, such as fractions and ratios, that are important for mathematical achievement. But the precise relation between music and ...