Advocacy Links

These are a few of links that can be used to help support you in efforts to convince schools, administrators and politicians to support Music Education. These were compiled to support NCAKE president Kit Eakle's Spring '05 Newsletter article. There are links for:

Reasearch supporting Music Education;

Advocacy tools (e.g. pamphlets, radio and TV ads, video clips etc.), and

California in Crisis information on California's crisis in music education

Research supporting importance of music education:

http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/psychology/rauscher.htm (Frances Rauscher's faculty page at U of Wisc., Oshkosh PDFs at bottom of all her writings)

http://www.musica.uci.edu/  Musica Research website - provides all issues of MuSICA Research Notes. MRN is a great compendium of research supporting the importance of music education.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2004/pr040819.cfm American Psychological Society Journal Article of latest research from Dr. Glenn Schellenberg of the University of Toronto showing music education leads to improved IQ test scores.

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musicsmart.html - Educational CyberPlayground has a good compendium of recent research.

Advocacy tools:

American Music Conference’s advocacy tools, an organization for advocating for music in the schools, has pamphlets, tips for saving programs, polls, Public Service announcements, etc.

Supportmusic.com , a service to help schools districts, teachers, and parents support their local music program provided by a coalition of MANY interested organizations, including AMC (see above) and MENC.

VH1 - What You can do to "Save the Music”, a service provided by the famous music video cable channel to support music in the schools

California in Crisis

CA-crisis.htm - Details of the Music Education crisis in California

Music-for-all.org  An article focusing on the music education crisis in California schools.