Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities—including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition—which lead to improved academic performance ...

Making the rigorous common-core standards in English/language arts and mathematics accessible to every type of learner is a huge undertaking for educators. My two stories examine two major issues when ...

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities -- including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition -- which lead to improved academic ...

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...