Musical Education Directive[Archived] [Complete]

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Hersfold

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Musical Education Directive
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.​

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational (possibly Artistic – unfortunately overlaps)
Proposed by: Hersfold

Description: BELIEVING that musical education is an essential part of a basic education in today’s modern society;

KNOWING that music is a large part of all cultures, and therefore should be included in educational studies to increase one's knowledge of one's culture and society;

FINDING that musical education is a tremendous benefit to an educational environment;

NOTING that musical education has been clinically proven to lower the susceptibility of minors to illicit drug use, increase performance in school, and increase coordination skills;

WISHING the best possible education for all, to ensure a greater standard of life;

RECALLING previous attempts to improve educational standards by the United Nations, including Resolutions #28, #54, #79, #97, and #101;

THE UNITED NATIONS HEREBY RESOLVES:

1. That all member nations shall provide a program for musical education in all publicly-funded schools, if in existence;

2. To strongly encourage privately-funded educational organizations to adopt similar programs;

3. To strongly encourage member nations to require a basic amount of musical education for all primary and secondary educational programs;

AND DEFINES musical education as any sort of formal training in the areas of instrumental music, vocal music, musical theory, or musical composition.

RESOLVED, THIS DATE, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
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I've decided to get back to drafting proposals again. This uses one of the new categories, of which I don't think one has been passed yet. Nevertheless, this continues in my line of Educational proposals.

Musical Education, as the draft states, has been clinically proven to improve intelligence, coordination, and decision-making skills. Thanks to Google, I was able to pull these stats out of an article:

Secondary students who participated in band or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances (alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs). — Texas Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse Report. Reported in Houston Chronicle, January 1998

A study of 237 second grade children used piano keyboard training and newly designed math software to demonstrate improvement in math skills. The group scored 27% higher on proportional math and fractions tests than children that used only the math software. — Graziano, Amy, Matthew Peterson, and Gordon Shaw, "Enhanced learning of proportional math through music training and spatial-temporal training." Neurological Research 21 (March 1999).

In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, children who were given music instruction scored 48 percent higher on spatial-temporal skill tests than those who did not receive music training. — Rauscher, F.H., and Zupan, M.A. (1999). Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: A field study. Manuscript in press, Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
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The way this is currently drafted, member nations would be required to start a music education program in all publically funded school, and strongly encourage those programs in privately funded institutions. While it does not require member nations to do so, it also recommends that they require a certain amount of musical education for all students.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions for this, please post them. Thanks!
 
If I were a delegate I would endorse this. As of now I am not but that can quickly be changed :P
 
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