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“Arts education encourages creativity and innovative thinking - crucial skills in an information age and a global economy. Virtually every website, after all, includes graphic design, photography, writing and, increasingly, audio and video. What is YouTube.com, if not a potential engine for artistic expression?”- Robert Lynch, president and chief executive of Americans for the Arts
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/20/08
61% of schools do not even have one full –time-equivalent arts specialist, although secondary schools are much more likely then elementary schools to employ specialist.
An Unfinished Canvas: Local Partnerships in Support or Arts Education in California
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2009
Listen to interviews with leading arts education advocates
Updated: 2/11/10
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