Dragons at Foothill Technology High School (Foothill Tech) listen to music on a daily basis, whether it be through the passing of a shop’s loudspeaker or the background to their study session. Music continues to be a major aspect of these students’ personal and academic lives, but does music have an overall beneficial or negative influence on teens in 2026?
Listening to music during personal time boosts teens’ mood and allows them to implement songs as a study strategy, but when utilized at school, music has the ability to improve students’ focus on various assessments.
According to Oxford Learning, a study was conducted to research the relationship between listening to music and studying. The results showed that out of 2,000 participants, 60 percent stated that studying was more productive when there was background sound, rather than silence and 75 percent believed that listening to music helped them digest information more successfully…