In a time when boards of education try to make dwindling budgets work by cutting staff and eliminating programs, music programs sometimes become budget targets, presumably because their perceived value isn’t as high as that of a core course. Yet recent research at the University of Cambridge suggests that scaling back or eliminating group music activities for students could negatively affect their social development.
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