“For all the rhetoric about 21st century skills and the global economy… the idea that you can get all kids to be competitive and to be self-directed and to be able to work in teams and solve problems and to be able to communicate effectively without rehearsal, all of those are pleading for access to the one place in the classic education system that actually understands it, and that’s the arts.” -Peter McWalters, Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and co-chair of the National Task Force on the Arts in Education

Keep Arts in Schools: Voices of Innovation