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These came through in Jeff Poulin’s weekly email from the Americans for the Arts. I am sure you will find them interesting and you may want to share this post with your colleagues, students and parents.

Hope, Engagement, Well-being and Arts Education
I just read with great interest a study published by Gallup Education this past April titled “State of American’s Schools: The Path to Winning Again in Education”.  Often studies published by education think tanks like these focus on “raising student achievement”–usually referring to the effort to raise student scores on standardized tests.  This research-based study focuses on success rather than achievement, and defined success in a way that had nothing to do with test scores.  In a poll of over 600,000 students, Gallup measured student success based on three factors: Hope, Emotional engagement (defined as the level of involvement and enthusiasm for school), and Well-being.

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Sir Ken Robinson – Can Creativity Be Taught?
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources in education and in business. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers on these topics, with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been viewed more than 25 million times and seen by an estimated 250 million people in over 150 countries. His 2006 talk is the most viewed in TED’s history. In 2011 he was listed as “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” by Fast Company magazine, and was ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top business thought leaders. Read more by clicking here.

A Little Light Reading! “Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education”
With the last few days of summer, I’ve actually had a few hours to peruse reports and listen to CDs people send me.  So here I am scanning a publication from OECD – the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in Paris, titled Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education (http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/arts.htm).  A tidy 264-page 2013 book, it understandably went on my “read-later” shelf, and this may not sound like the most inspiring reading to launch a new season. But I’m glad I did finally open it (and I hope many others in the Roundtable have done so already). Read more by clicking here.