How Music Fits into the Common Core Curriculum
After deciding how music could potentially be more beneficial as a required course in the public education system as opposed to a casual, at-home activity, we must consider how music could fit in with the current core curriculum courses. Music is very similar to language in numerous ways: in cognitive function, brain stimulation, processing, purpose, and even in practice. In fact, many scientists believe that language evolved from musical communication and they state that “we are born with the ability to process music, just as we are born with the ability to acquire language (Patel, 2008a, 361). Language and music processing appear to involve closely-related cognitive and neural systems…” (Zuccarini
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What are the core curriculum standards? Does music meet the requirements? How much does it cost to implement a music program? Is there time? How easy would it be to implement music? Let’s begin by taking a look at the core curriculum standards. Still, the question of whether music meets the requirements of the core curriculum standards still stands. The main goal of the common core curriculum is to promote college and career readiness and improve critical reading (Hill 42). With benefits that promote reading fluency, enhanced auditory processing, and improved mathematical, scientific, and spatial-temporal reasoning and encourage self-discipline, concentration, and determination, music fulfills the common core goal of college readiness and improved reading skills. Although music can be considered a technical subject, which is a subject that is supplemental to math, science, history, and english, the benefits it has for other subjects don’t represent the entirety of music education. One can be literate in music and gain many skills, such as performance and aural skills, which allow music to have its own merit within the common