Hi everyone, and welcome back to another year of music-making! There were several excellent advocacy articles that I read during the summer, and here is one of them:

Neuroscientists from USC have completed a five-year study where they found that music instruction improves cognitive and social development in elementary-aged children.

Click HERE to read the article from the News/Medical website.

– Submitted by James Dowdy, OMEA Music Education Advocacy Chair