A Musical Fix for American Schools

Joanne Lipman says, "American education is in perpetual crisis. Our students are falling ever farther behind their peers in the rest of the world. Learning disabilities have reached epidemic proportions, affecting as many as one in five of our children. Illiteracy costs American businesses $80 billion a year."

In her most recent Wall St. Journal essay, she proposes a different approach: music training. She says that a growing body of evidence suggests that music could trump many of the much more expensive “fixes” that we have thrown at the education system.

To read more about her theory, check out the full essay in the Wall St. Journal.

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