Inspiring

This is why we need to be thinking about new educational paradigms. Teaching for the needs of the industrial revolution is no longer going to cut it.  We need to think about the kind of work we are preparing students for.   The 21st century is increasingly going to value qualities like creativity, flexibility and ability to approach problems in unconventional ways.  These are skills that the arts are uniquely effective effective in imparting.

Here is an entertaining and thought provoking talk by Sir Ken Robinson, respected thinker and advocate for education reform. - 

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html


These are links to arts advocacy sites:

Americans for the Arts (www.artsusa.org)
Keep Arts In Schools (www.KeepArtsinSchools.org)
The Kennedy Center (www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org)
VSA Arts (www.vsarts.org)
National Endowment for the Arts (arts.endow.gov)
National Art Education Association (NAEA) (www.naea-reston.org/)
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts (www.nationalguild.org)
The Arts Education Partnership (www.aep-arts.org)