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"Students who have the capacity to work as part of a team, to use their imaginations, to think creatively, who are comfortable with the creative potential of new technologies, who have the skills that arts-infused learning builds, will be best placed to participate fully in American life and take advantage of 21st century jobs. And these students will have the capacity to represent what's important to them, to express themselves as participants in our democracy. The arts, as my arts colleagues have argued, animate democratic practice."
Cyrus E. Driver, Deputy Director, Education, Sexuality, Religion unit at Ford Foundation
96% of California middle schools and 72% of high schools fail to offer standards-aligned courses of study in all four arts disciplines.
An Unfinished Canvas: Local Partnerships in Support or Arts Education in California
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2009
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Updated: 2/11/10
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