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Harmony Project Music-Based Mentoring Study

Recent research links disparities in children’s language-related brain function to poverty and its correlates. Such disparities are hypothesized to underlie achievement gaps between students from low-income families and more advantaged peers. Interventions that improve language-related brain function in low-income students exist, but evaluations of their implementation within high-poverty elementary schools do not. This comparison-group study evaluates whether implementation within high-poverty elementary schools of Harmony Project music-based mentoring, previously shown in randomized controlled research to improve language-related brain function and literacy in low-income students, might be associated with academic improvement for participants compared with non-participating peers.

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Harmony Project Tulsa Students compose music for the American Ballet Theatre!

PRESS RELEASE Dec 14 2020

ABT STUDIO COMPANY TO PREMIERE VISCERAL HARMONIES, CHOREOGRAPHED BY AMY HALL GARNER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 AT 6 P.M. ET ON YOUTUBE AND IGTV. A FIRST-EVER WORLDWIDE, TECH-ENABLED COLLABORATION BETWEEN YOUNG DANCERS WITH ABT STUDIO COMPANY AND YOUNG MUSICIANS WITH THE COLLECTIVE CONSERVATORY

For more information on ABT Studio Company and American Ballet Theatre, please visit www.abt.org.  For more information on the Collective Conservatory, please visit www.collectiveconservatory.com.

J.W. Pepper Blog: How Music Education Benefits the Brain

“We have conducted numerous studies with children and teens to see how music education affects their auditory processing skills and, in turn, their academic performance. One group of kids we studied extensively were students taking part in a program called the Harmony Project in southern California. This program was started by Dr. Margaret Martin in 2001 to provide mentoring through music to students from low-income households.”

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Music Program Success

An after school program is introducing young children to the world of music. The children receive violins and other string instruments and instruction on how to take care of them and learn how to play. “Harmony Project Tulsa” is now in its fifth year. This story aired on the ONR on OETA-The Oklahoma Network. For more information, go to the ONR web site http://www.oeta.tv/programs/onr.

 

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