There is a direct correlation between improved SAT scores and the length of time spent studying the. arts. Those who studied the arts four or more years scored 59 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math portions of the SAT than students with no coursework or experience in the arts. Profiles of SAT and Achievement Test Takers. Gallup Survey Seventy-one percent of respondents in the Gallup Survey think music education should be mandated by states. March 1996 will mark the second anniversary of the release of the National Standards for Arts Education, as well as the recognition of the arts, among other academic disciplines, as a core subject.
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Today's music students are more self-motivated. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.