Got Creativity?

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Got Creativity?
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• Whos saying what about the arts, creativity and
  the future of America

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• The demand for a new work force to meet the
  challenges of a global knowledge economy is
  rapidly increasing. As a special report in
  Business Week magazine observed last year The
  game is changing. It isnt just about math and
  science anymore. Its about creativity,
  imagination, and, above all innovation.
• Most analysts studying the new global economy
  agree that the growing creative and innovative
  economy represents Americas salvation.
• Eger, John M. (2008) The Arts in Contemporary
  Education, The School Administrator, March, 2008

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• Robert Root-Bernstein, a biochemist and MacArther
  prize winner, studied 150 eminent scientists from
  Pasteur to Einstein. His findings were startling
  to those educators lobbying for more emphasis on
  the sciences for he discovered that nearly all of
  the great inventors and scientists were also
  musicians, artists, writers or poet.
• Root-Berstein and his wife Michelle co-authored
  the book Sparks of Genius which examines the
  minds of inventive people and shows that
  creativity is something that both artists and
  scientists learn. More important, the authors
  show that the seemingly disparate disciplines of
  art and science, music and math complement and
  enhance one another.
• Eger, John M. (2008) The Arts in Contemporary
  Education, The School Administrator, March, 2008

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• Sadly, with the way we currently approach
  schooling in America, we are destined to become a
  third-rate economy and a Third World Power. We
  are forfeiting our greatest edge by walking away
  from what we do best. America should compete at
  what it has always done best being the
  innovative engine that drives the world economy.
• Houston, Paul D. (2006) Barking Up the Right
  Tree, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88 NO 1, September,
  2006

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• Sadly, with the way we currently approach
  schooling in America, we are destined to become a
  third-rate economy and a Third World Power. We
  are forfeiting our greatest edge by walking away
  from what we do best. America should compete at
  what it has always done best being the
  innovative engine that drives the world economy.
• Houston, Paul D. (2006) Barking Up the Right
  Tree, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88 NO 1, September,
  2006

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• The dominance of the left-brained-driven
  world, where everything is sequential and logical
  is giving way to a more right-brained endeavor
  that focuses on the creative, holistic skills.
• Pink, Daniel, A Whole new Mind, ( 2005) Riverhead
  Books, New York

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• Creativity is a habit. The problem is that
  schools sometimes treat it as a bad habit. And
  the world of conventional standardized tests we
  have invented does just that. Try being creative
  on a standardized test, and you will get slapped
  down just as soon as you get your score. That
  will teach you not to do it again.
• Sternberg, Robert J. (2006) Creativity Is a
  Habit, Education Week Vol. 25 NO 24, February 22,
  2006

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• Like any habit, creativity can either be
  encouraged or discouraged. The main things that
  promote the habit are (a) opportunities to engage
  in it, (b) encouragement when people avail
  themselves of these opportunities, and (c)
  rewards when people respond to such encouragement
  and think and behave creatively. You need all
  three.
• Sternberg, Robert J. (2006) Creativity Is a
  Habit, Education Week Vol. 25 NO 24, February 22,
  2006

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• Now evidence is emerging that arts education can
  have powerful effects on student achievement, and
  that these effects may be most profound for
  struggling students. Gains associated with high
  arts participation were greatest for students in
  the lowest SES quartile, those most at risk of
  academic failure. Low-performing students in
  these programs consistently defied teachers
  expectations as they found pathways to success
  through the arts that eluded them in conventional
  classrooms. Many changed from withdrawn or
  disruptive elements to active and productive
  class members1.
• Obama Arts Policy Committee Briefing Paper, Arts
  Education and School Improvement.

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• Quality arts education is a priority for ALL
  students because
• a. Equity ALL students have a right to equitable
  access to arts and culture. Not only the
  privileged, not only the exceptionally talented,
  but ALL learners. In a democracy, the arts
  belong to EVERYONE.
• b. 21st Century Work Skills Quality arts
  education is an essential part of 21st century
  learning needed by young people to succeed in an
  information economy, where the nature of work is
  constantly changing, and todays students must
  develop the flexibility and creativity necessary
  to adapt to the jobs of tomorrow. The skills
  developed by the arts (collaboration, expression,
  imagining options) are no longer a luxury for the
  few, but basic skills needed by all.
• Obama Arts Policy Committee Briefing Paper, Arts
  Education and School Improvement.

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Got Creativity?