The polling showed that more than four out of five (84%) of young people felt music was important for their mental health, and a whopping 90% enjoyed classroom music lessons.

Jess Baron, the founder of Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom, said music was defunded all over the U.S. due to budget issues when the nonprofit started in 2000.

As California schools ramp up arts education, they may need 15,000 new teachers who are passionate about both the arts and teaching the next generation. One person with both those passions is ...

Arguably one of the most effective ways of using music in the foreign language classroom is through direct music activities. Yet when I’m teaching a Level 1 beginners class, it’s impossible to use ...

Allen said she taught English before music and said her love of writing is being used in a whole new way. “If you want to write a song about capybaras, I’m going to indulge that,” said Allen.

Later, she shared a video of her class successfully completing the mute challenge, and it went viral. Now, the mute challenge has morphed into a tool for teachers to get their classroom’s ...

Texas teacher brings rap music into the classroom Thomas Mayfield helped raise test scores and engagement in the classroom, and now he's helping teachers in Fort Worth learn what he did.

Eileen Jahn, who teaches music at the St. Philip’s Academy in Newark, N.J., is one of 60 music educators around the country that have begun to integrate “Wii Music” into their regular ...

“For kids who have chaos and unpredictability in their lives, music has structure, music has predictability,” says Alyssa Monas, a music therapist at Childhaven, one of 12 nonprofits helped ...

Kristin Woodie teaches music there and is hoping she can get help buying laptops for her classroom. She’s asking for donations through DonorsChoose, an online charity that helps teachers get funding ...