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Paul McCartney Joins Music Education Cause

Paul McCartney Joins Music Education Cause

Paul McCartney Joins Music Education Cause Even though experts have shown that music education improves performance in and out of the classroom, increases SAT scores and keeps kids in school, budget cuts have been breaking up marching bands and silencing school choruses across the country. To combat this trend, Fidelity Investments joined music icon Paul McCartney to launch a new public charity, the Music Lives Foundation, aimed at increasing funding for music education programs in schools. “As a boy growing up in Liverpool, I was surrounded by music,” said McCartney. “That’s just the way it was. The problem is that...