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SUMMARY: The percentage of students receiving music education has been in decline for decades. The Harmony Project, a music program for inner-city kids in Los Angeles partners with a neurobiologist to study the impact of music training on the learning skills of poor children.
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DR. NINA KRAUS, neurobiologist at Northwestern University: There have been a number of studies. And the language abilities seem to be strengthened by the music instruction more than the art. And so these language-based skills seem to profit from music instruction.
JOSH ARONSON : The Harmony Project has 17 sites in Los Angeles and one in Ventura. And there are 16 more in three other states.
CONDUCTOR: Here we go. From the Allegro. Measure 37…
JOSH ARONSON: What are the goals, where do you want to take this?
MARGARET MARTIN: Oh man, my dream is to build Harmony Project programs in inner cities throughout the country because our students are achieving their unique potential. They are blossoming.
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