Readings

Could Common Core Help grow Arts?  http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/04/28/could-common-core-help-grow-arts-education-in-schools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Nine ways a theater degree trumps a business degree: http://changeagent.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/9-ways-a-theatre-degree-trumps-a-business-degree/

Mindset/Grit and children’s books on arts:  http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/13/picture-book-biographies/

Is the MFA the new MBA?: http://www.fastcompany.com/3007541/mfa-new-mba

DREAM on the California Alliance for Education website; blog by merryl focuses on how 10 years of NCLB has effected students, many of whom are now in college and why arts integration is so important to the current generation of kids. http://www.artsed411.org/blog/2014/01/dreams_education

Chronicle of Higher Education March 10, 2014 Who Knew? Arts Education Fuels the Economy: http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Knew-Arts-Education-Fuels/145217/

STEM to STEAM article in national PTA magazine: stem to steam goldberg jan 2014

Time for revolution: Arts education at the ready (Goldberg): http://www.csusm.edu/centerartes/forms-documents/goldbergartseducationaeiqDec2008.pdf

Beth Olshansky: http://www.picturingwriting.org/publishedarticles/pdf/talking-points.pdf

Buzzfeed: teacher shares her notes from third graders: http://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/teacher-shares-heartbreaking-anonymous-notes-from-her-third#.ig66Q8N4r