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quote[0]=" <i>Secondary students who participated in band or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances, alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs.</i> <br>-  Texas Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse Report. Reported in Houston Chronicle, January 1998"
quote[1]="<i>A majority of the engineers and technical designers in Silicon Valley are practicing musicians.</i> <br> -1997 finding of the Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum "
quote[2]="<i>Music can help migraine sufferers reduced the intensity, frequency, and duration of the headaches.</i><br> -  Paul Chance, ãMusic Hath Charms to Soothe a Throbbing Head,ä Psychology Today, February 1987. p. 14."
quote[3]="<i>Scientists have found that music involves both left, right, front, and back portions of the brain.</i><br> -  Donald A. Hodges, Neuromusical Research. Handbook of Music Psychology. -San Antonio: IMR Press. 1996."
quote[4]="<i>Courses in music, as well as in art and drama, positively influenced the decisions of high school students not to drop out of school.</i> <br>- N.H. Barry, J.A. Taylor, and K. Walls, The Role of the Fine and Performing Arts in High School Dropout Prevention - Tallahassee, Florida: Centre for Music Research, Florida State University, 1990"
quote[5]="<i>There is a very high correlation between positive self-perception, high cognitive competence scores, healthy self-esteem, total interest and school involvement, and the study of music.</i> <br>- O.F. Lillemyr, Achievement Motivation as a Factor in Self-Perception, Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities"
quote[6]="<i>Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 showed that music participants received more academic honours and awards than non-music students, and that the percentage of music participants receiving A’s, A’s and B’s, and B’s was higher than the percentage of non-participants receiving those grades.</i> <br>- NELS:88 First Follow-Up, 1990, National Centre for Education Statistics, Washington, DC."
quote[7]="<i>Research shows that when a child listens to classical music the right hemisphere of the brain is activated, but when a child studies a musical instrument both left and right hemispheres of the brain light up. Significantly, the areas that become activated are the same areas that are involved in analytical and mathematical thinking.</i> <br>- Dee Dickinson, Music and the Mind.-Seattle: New Horizons for Learning, 1993."
quote[8]="<i>A 1981 study by Minicucci showed that kindergarten students basic skills achievement scores increased when music was added to the curriculum.- Jeanne Akin, Music Makes a Difference. -Lafayette, California: Lafayette Arts and Science Foundation, 1987."
quote[9]="<i>Studying music strengthens student’s academic performance. Studies have indicated that sequential, skill-building instruction in art and music integrated with the rest of the curriculum can greatly improve children’s performance in reading and math.</i> <br>- Martin Gardiner, Alan Fox, Faith Knowles, and Donna Jeffrey, Learning Improved by Arts Training, Nature, May 23, 1996."
quote[10]="<i>Dr. Jean Houston of the Foundation for Mind Research believes that the brains of children not exposed to music arts education are actually being damaged because these non-verbal modalities help them with skills such as reading, writing, and math.</i> <br>- Tony Mickela, Does Music Have an Impact on the Development of Students? Prepared for the 1990 state convention of the California Music Education Association."
quote[11]="The average scores achieved by music students on the 1999 SAT, increased for every year of musical study. The same trend was found in SAT scores of previous years. - Steven M. Demorest and Steven J. Morrison, in 'Does Music Make You Smarter' Music Educators Journal, September. 2000."



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