Proud to see Dennie Palmer Wolf and WolfBrown featured in the Los Angeles Times discussing the importance of music and arts learning in early childhood education.
“Increasingly in early childhood education, if you look at the requirements, we’re urging literacy and mathematical competence,” said Dennie Palmer Wolf, a principal researcher at the research and consultancy group WolfBrown and author of a recent report with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute on how music affects child development. “Visual arts, dance, music get pushed to the side.”
The article highlights growing research showing that singing and music support vocabulary development, phonological awareness, reading readiness, emotional development, and connection — a powerful reminder that the arts are foundational to learning, not supplemental.