Recommended Readings
Arts Education Partnership. (1999). Champions of Change: The impact of the arts on learning.

Arts Education Partnership. (2002). Critical links: Learning in the arts and student academic and social development.

Arts Education Partnership and the National Assembly for State Art Agencies. (2006). Critical evidence: How the arts benefit student achievement.

Arts Education Partnership. (2006). Making a case for the arts: How and why the arts are critical to student achievement and better schools.

Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L. & Cocking R. R. (Eds.)(1999). How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school (Expanded ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Burnaford, G., Brown, S., Doherty, J., & McLaughlin, H.J. (2007) Arts integration: frameworks, research & practice. Washington, D.C.: Arts Education Partnership

Bush, others want to go beyond basics. (2007, October  17).  Education Week [Washington].

Carson, I. and Vaitheeswaran, V. (2007, October 13). Something new under the sun. The Economist, 3-19.

Center on Education Policy. (2007). Choices, changes, challenges: Curriculum and instruction in the NCLB era.

The Conference Board. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society
for Human Resource Management. (2006). Are they really ready to work? Employers’ perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce.

Educating children in the new millennium: Child’s play. (2007, October 10). Education Week [Washington].

Education Commission of the States. (2006) Arts in education issue brief: State policymakers’ views on the arts in education.

Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class: And how it’s transforming work, leisure, community, and everyday life. New York: Perseus.

Florida, R. (2005). The Flight of the Creative Class: The new global competition for talent. New York: Harper Collins.

Friedman, T.L. (2007). The world is flat (Updated and expanded): a brief history of the 21st century. New York: Picador.

Howell, W., Peterson, P. & West, M. (2007). What Americans Think about Their Schools. Education Next, 7, 4. 

National Endowment for the Arts. (2007). The arts and civic engagement: Involved in arts, involved in life.

National Center on Education and the Economy. (2006). Tough choices or tough times: The report on the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. 

National Governors Association Center for Best Practice. (2002).The impact of arts education on workforce preparation. Washington, D.C.: National Governors Association.

Ohio Board of Regents. (2007). Background and overview, HB 115 Ohio core funding.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The. U.S. students need 21st century skills to compete in global economy: Americans express strong support in national poll for teaching more than basic skills. <www.21stcenturyskills.org>

Pink, D. (2006). A whole new mind: Why right brainers will rule the future. New York: Riverhead

Robinson, K. (2001). Out of our minds: Learning to be creative. Oxford: Capstone.

Stevenson, L. M. & Deasy, R.J. (2005). Third space: when learning matters. Washington, D.C.: Arts Education Partnership.

Swartz, D.L., Bransford, J.D. & Sears, D. (2005). Efficiency and innovation in transfer. In  J. P. Mestre (Ed.) Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.