According to a just-published study in the journal Psychology of Music, the reading skills of young children who received structured training in music were clearly superior to those of their peers who did not have the benefit of such instruction. The finding is particularly striking because both groups of kids took part in comprehensive literary training, in which lengthy periods of their school day were dedicated to reading and writing. The study, conducted by psychologists Joseph M. Piro and Camilo Ortiz of New York's Long Island University, directly compared second-graders from two New York ... Read More