Here are some links to additional materials about visual arts education.
China's Boxed Itself In Its emphasis on math and science has certainly fueled its rapid economic growth,
but its lack of creative thinking could rob it of an innovative edge.
Randy Pollock, LA Times, May 5, 2009
Bringing Design Thinking to Schools Video of a presentation by Professor Shelly Goldman from the Standford School
of Education about this project from the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education.
Taking Design Thinking to School An article from the Stanford quarterly, Interactions, about the K-12 program
and the importance of rediscovering creativity. (Winter, 2008)