Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been
embraced by
everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate
School of Education doctoral student working
in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»
They're assured that charters won't be engaging
in the systematic inclusion or exclusion of kids, that special needs kids and English language learners will be equally served and
embraced by
everyone, and that both district and charter
schools get opportunities to learn from another.