Our kids need the new thinking skills so in demand in an economy crying out for creativity and innovation. We need teachers and artists to work together to develop arts-integrated learning experiences.
A recent report unveiled the President's thinking about the important connection between art and culture and creativity and innovation, and promised an agenda for reinventing education in America.
Both the House and Senate seem to be working together on a revised bill. It almost sounds too good to be true but education is everybody's issue, every citizen's concern.
Globalization 3.0, first coined by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, is here. Outsourcing and offshoring have entered our lexicon of new words.
The data points for moving STEM to STEAM are becoming clearer, and the urgency of revisiting the current pedagogy used in pre-schools, K-12, and our universities, obvious.