The Mercury News – Joe Rodriguez
“The musical notes that day in Santee Elementary School’s echo-prone, combined cafeteria and auditorium penetrated deep enough to capture the interest of the two boys at the high-poverty school, and dozens more students like them at the forefront of a revival in music education. The jazz group’s Progressions program aims to remove schoolchildren from poverty’s snares through music. It has long been suspected that music instruction helps students learn other subjects. Plato said as much 24 centuries ago, but a stream of new research bears out the Greek philosopher and them some. Music may even close the academic gap between rich and poor students.”(more)