self-image, self awareness, and creates a positive attitude about oneself. Also found in this article .
it states that music connects and develops the motor system of the brain in a way that cannot be .
done by any other activity. In fact in a way when a student is not involved in music education .
damages the brain. While the other article Robert Gillespie discovered when researching many of .
the elementary schools that "More and More Music teachers across the country are being denied .
regular access to elementary students by administrators and elementary classrooms teachers .
because of academic achievement concerns." as well as Throughout the years newspapers are .
being filled more and more with articles and editorials about the need to get back to "basics"in .
the schools, basics that eliminate time for the arts and music. Today, the elementary classroom .
teachers are being held accountable of the academic progress of their students. "Teachers" .
evaluations are being based in part on how well their students perform on standardized .
achievement tests." "This situation of denying access to music programs to elementary school .
children because of academic concerns is reaching the crises for music teachers who are faced .
with the need to remove students from their classroom settings for music educational activities." .
Robert Gillespie stated that according to The National Association for Music Education there has .
been six separate studies that show student math and reading achievement test scores are not .
affected by this classroom "pull out." Therefore, the crises that the music teachers are being faced .
with, should no longer affect whether or not music is the cause for the concern on the low tests .
scores throughout many of the elementary schools, as well as the question on whether or not .
music should be taken out of the schools.
The next two articles are on the "Multiple Intelligences" with excerpts by Howard.