The Hechinger Report – Chris Berdik
“Numerous studies have found that students who play an instrument tend to do better in school across a wide-range of subjects, but not everyone agrees that music instruction is the reason why they do better. It’s not clear whether music training sharpens the learning mind or if smarter and self-motivated kids are more likely to start (and stick with) music training in the first place—the classic causation versus correlation conundrum.” (more)