Education Week Article

I really enjoyed Emily's article selection: "The Skills Connection Between the Arts and 21st-Century Learning," by Bruce D. Taylor. For the most part, the ideas discussed are not new to me, but the language functions really well to articulate a lot of complex points that often have me tripping over my words and running my mouth. Not having gone to art school for undergrad, many of the arguments Taylor makes for contemporary arts education echo my motivations to pursue a career in this field (I'm pretty sure there were some similar sentences in grad school essays). Further, I often find myself in education-related conversations with friends in which I have a lot of trouble clearly communicating my positions on current issues or even what I'm doing in this program and am always interested in articles like this which synthesize and articulate my points much better than I do.