07-26-2009
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Re: Help me describe why music education is important please
What would happen if they were "too busy with their music"?
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'broken windows' theory
The thinking is along the lines of the "broken windows" theory, introduced in 1982 by political scientist James Q. Wilson and criminologist George L. Kelling.
The theory - widely debated - basically says bigger crimes can be prevented by focusing on hot spots and the people doing the smaller crimes, such as graffiti and breaking windows.
The concept is that such behavior leads to disorder and breeds more bad behavior and deterioration of affected neighborhoods.
New York City officials credited the "broken windows" approach to helping them slash violent crime there in the 1990s, although critics also point to other factors.
In Tampa, officials started by simplifying their mission statement and emphasizing it to every officer: "The Mission of the Tampa Police Department is to Reduce Crime and Improve the Quality of Life Through a Cooperative Partnership with the Community."
Officials also backed the mission and their "focus on four" crime approach with changes in procedures.
They decentralized the department so that three geographical divisions had their own tacticians and other resources without having to compete with each other to obtain them from headquarters, Castor said.
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Tampa tames crime
Tampa achieved a 46 percent crime drop from 2002 to 2008 in seven major combined categories: murder, aggravated assaults, forcible sex, robbery, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.
Better than state. The city reported nearly 16,000 fewer crimes for the same period. And crime dropped in the seven categories mentioned by 9.2 percent from 2007 to 2008
Source: Tampa Police Department, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
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Reducing crime: Tampa's success | Jacksonville.com
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The Mozart effect
J S Jenkins MD FRCP
J R Soc Med 2001;94:170-172
© 2001 Royal Society of Medicine
   40 Hampstead Way, London NW11 7JL, UK In 1993 Rauscher et al.1 made the surprising claim that, after listening to Mozart's sonata for two pianos (K448) for 10 minutes, normal subjects showed significantly better spatial reasoning skills than after periods of listening to relaxation instructions designed to lower blood pressure or silence.
The mean spatial IQ scores were 8 and 9 points higher after listening to the music than in the other two conditions. The enhancing effect did not extend beyond 10-15 minutes.
These results proved controversial. Some investigators were unable to reproduce the findings2,3,4 but others confirmed that listening to Mozart's sonata K448 produced a small increase in spatial-temporal performance, as measured by various tests derived from the Stanford—Binet scale such as paper-cutting and folding procedures5,6,7 or pencil-and-paper maze tasks8.
However, Rauscher has stressed that the Mozart effect is limited to spatial temporal reasoning and that there is no enhancement of general intelligence; some of the negative results, she thinks, may have been due to inappropriate test procedures9.
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The Mozart effect -- Jenkins 94 (4): 170 -- JRSM
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Last edited by Michaelangelica; 07-26-2009 at 06:14 PM..
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