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Harris Interactive released the results of their Music Education Poll mid-November of last year.  Here’s a summary:

• Music education is associated with those that go on to higher education.
• Music education is also associated with higher incomes.
• Music education has some influence on people’s personal level of fulfillment.
• Music education is important in giving people the ability to strive for individual excellence.
• Music education is important for providing a disciplined approach to solving problems.
• Music education is very important in teaching how to work toward common goals.
• Music education is very important in creative problem solving and helping people to be flexible in work situations.
• Music education equips people to be team players in their working environment.
• Music education provides a sense of organization to people.

There is much more in this report.  To view the whole report click here.

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I joined the International Society of Music Educators (ISME) mid-last year.  I did this to become part of a larger music education community.  One that transcends national boundaries.   As many of you know, I am trying to get as many musicians and educators talking about what they do, why they do, and join a “global conversation” about our field.  ISME is trying to do just that…

Part of the ISME website includes a list to a number of FANTASTIC music advocacy articles.  There are over two dozen articles written by some of the finest music minds of our time.  These articles are free to download and view and you do not need to be a member of ISME to access them.  Reading articles like these will provide a real basis for music educators and musicians to be able to answer the questions posed to us as to why music is important!

Others and I have written a lot about music advocacy here on http://www.mustech.net.  View our advocacy and advocacy related articles here and page back through them, you will find a lot of “great stuff” in those articles:
http://www.mustech.net/category/music-advocacy/

Become an advocate yourself and join our 100 ME Bloggers campaign.  You have what it takes to talk to the world about what you do best!  Don’t wait, just do it! We’ll help!

Here are the titles and authors of the music advocacy articles that can be found at ISME:

1: Music Education as a Powerful Stimulus for Brain Plasticity     
Eckart Altenmüller: Full professor at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine University for Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany

2: Brief Comments on Music Education Advocacy     
Wayne Bowman: Professor, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba Canada 

3: Road Rage and Musical Community     
Nicholas Cook, FBA: Research Professor of Music, University of Southampton, UK 
 
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Mustech.net and the DigitalMusicEducator.wordpress.com have started a campaign to have 100 Music Educators blogging about music, education, and technology by January of 2009. We are inviting you to join our campaign and become an active blogger! This truly is the ground-floor of what IS the next wave of educational communication and thought/idea sharing for our fields (and every other one!).

There are a number of reasons that an educator will blog:

Since there was so much interest in my post about August Rush, I decided to interview two of my best students in the “Alternative Music” class using Pod-o-Matic, the same service that Joe and Darren use for their excellent podcast.  I hope that you enjoy the podcast as much as I enjoyed making it- a truly remarkable, real “moment” with my students.  The podcast also features the song that they are working on as a project in the class.  If you are so inclined, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the episode, their music, or the idea in general of a class of this sort.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below:

http://nphsperformingarts.podOmatic.com

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