Music Education: Articles & News

  • MAC Corner: It’s Time to Refill the Ranks

    Charlie Menghini, president, professor of Music and director of bands at VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois as well as the educational advisor to The Music Achievement Council (MAC) provides insight into bringing the next generation into the music education profession.

  • 2016 SupportMusic Merit Award Schools

    The NAMM Foundation has recognized 118 schools across the nation with the SupportMusic Merit Award (SMMA), honoring individual schools that have demonstrated strong support for and commitment to music education.

  • 2016 Best Communities for Music Education Districts

    The NAMM Foundation has recognized 476 school districts across the United States as among the Best Communities for Music Education (BCME), out of the nation’s 13,515 school districts. Now in its 17th year, BCME recognizes outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders who work together to ensure access to music learning for all students as part of the school curriculum.

  • Community Music Programs Enhance Brain Function In At-Risk Children

    NAMM Foundation supported research shows that two years of musical training improves auditory brain function

  • How Children Benefit from Music Education in Schools

    Playing music has been scientifically proven to benefit people of all ages—and, it’s fun to do.

  • The Positive Influence of Playing Music on Youth

    How Children Benefit from Music Education In Schools

  • Benefits of Learning and Playing Music for Adults

    Playing music has been scientifically proven to benefit people of all ages—and, it’s fun to do. Adults who play an instrument—even if it’s just for fun—are able to reduce their stress and use the activity as an emotional outlet. Working adults reduce their chances of job “burnout.”

  • Music and Toddlers: Benefits of Music and Movement in Early Childhood

    According to Sandra Trehub, Professor Emeritus, Infant and Child Studies Center at the University of Toronto, perhaps the world's foremost expert on infant auditory development and the development of music abilities and music perception in children, babies are naturally musical. Studies at the University of Toronto show that infants:

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