I reading programs at Public School No. 1 in Brooklyn, New York included music and the arts in the curriculum. Low achieving readers learn to read when music and related arts are in the reading curriculum. All grades surpassed the program objective of five normal curve equivalents on the California Achievement Test scores. Bi-lingual and special education students also surpassed program goals as measured by the Wisconsin Design Skill Development test. The project involved a well-planned curriculum which included music and a longitudinal study with carefully drawn conclusions.
Educators agree that music education is beneficial to reading achievement.
Music is found to be also beneficial in the teaching of social studies and history, as noted earlier. Evidence is now found that music instruction can lead to achievement in math as well. ESEA Title I program of additional art, music P.E., and industrial arts class with enrichment and counseling. He found that children who have received school keyboard music lessons a score higher in mathematics than students not in the program, although their IQ scores are no higher than the other students' scores. Arts have been found to make a cognitive impact.