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By Aaron Allen,
\nThe Seattle Medium<\/p>\n

For the past twenty-five years, funding cuts to music programs in public schools have been on the rise, as school boards and superintendents often cite economic strains as a justification for the cuts, relegating music and the arts to after-school or enrichment programs.<\/p>\n

Looking at the music education funding landscape, we can see that music education budget cuts disproportionately impact school districts that serve students of color, immigrant students, and low-income communities. According to the most recent federal data, a majority of students in the U.S. have access to music education as part of their school day. The approximately 7,000 schools without music programs are predominantly in school districts that serve Black, immigrant, and low-income student populations.<\/p>\n

Studies have shown that quality general music education has been linked to the development of self-control, planning, verbal intelligence, and enhanced math and science skills. According to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), music is an essential component of a well-rounded education. However, school districts have been aggressively pushing STEM \u2013 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics \u2013 programs in preparing students for the workforce of the future, while many advocates for the arts believe that schools need to have a STEAM curriculum \u2013 Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics \u2013 that cultivates students who are more in tune with the arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe music should be a mandatory class in schools,\u201d says Thaddeus Turner, co-founder of Totem Star, a music program that provides positive identity development and career training opportunities within the music industry. \u201cMusic and art are always an elective; it\u2019s not part of mandatory learning. When people walk up to me and say, \u2018I wish I could do what you are doing,\u2019 and nothing is stopping one from doing this, but it is not easy to do, like getting up and playing in front of people, practicing, learning songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt [playing music] looks like it\u2019s fun; it looks easy, so how could it be educational?\u201d added Turner. \u201cHow could it be science? How could it be math? Well, it is all of that. You have to count; you\u2019ve got to learn music theory, read and calculate. It is a language all unto itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Pak, who transitioned from a metallurgical engineering background to becoming a music teacher, firmly believes in the correlation between music and its influence on learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic is not just about notes and lyrics; it goes so much farther beyond that,\u201d says Pak. \u201cWhen you can appreciate that holistic approach to learning, I think the future is brighter for anyone who loves the culture of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thaddeus Turner agrees and believes that exposure to the arts is vital to the overall development and success of young people. According to Turner, music is a \u201cmultiplexed universe that ingulfs everything all at once,\u201d including science, core chemistry, intonation, writing, and score writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think basically music is a great tool in achieving in academia,\u201d says Turner. \u201cIt can teach students history, social justice. It can teach and strengthen math skills, math equations, all kinds of STEM-based fundamentals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are definitely aspects of music that can correlate to math and science,\u201d says Pak. \u201cOf course, at its most basic unit music is the function of time, volume, amplitude, and frequency of sound, when you talk about hertz range. So, for young people who are really invested in music to become their best songwriter selves, it is very much valuable for them to learn about frequency, amplitude, timing, fractions of time, whether it\u2019s quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, sixteenth notes, how everything works together in a holistic manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

While STEM initiatives are a vital start in exploring the four disciplines, advocates for a well-rounded education experience believe that the critical process of creativity and innovation, teamwork, and camaraderie is missing. Students in STEM programs may have opportunities for experimental learning to excel, but these advocates believe that the success of students in the real world also requires the application of creation, teamwork, team building, and ingenuity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing that I have realized because of the way we live nowadays is that they have taken the teamwork out of learning,\u201d says Turner. \u201cThere are no more bands. I remember being in high school, and we had band class. As much as the culture today promotes solo artistry, as a band, we were stronger together and as a unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The STEM to STEAM movement has been taking root as a positive action to meet the needs of a 21st-century economy. Parents, educators, and employers have voiced that STEM alone is missing key components critical for children to thrive in the present and rapidly approaching future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have used data like the Arts Survey, and it shows that students who take music and art as a part of their curriculum are way more successful in their core classes,\u201d says Pak. \u201cThere is a higher graduation rate, higher rates of getting into college, and those who do not receive music or art because of cuts in school funding perhaps do not perform as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article <\/em>STEM vs. STEAM: Advocating For The Return Of Art And Music In School Curriculums<\/em><\/a> was originally published by <\/em>The Seattle Medium<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The post STEM vs. STEAM: advocating for the return of art and music in school curriculums<\/a> appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers <\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in <\/em>The Afro<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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