The Creativity Crisis

I recently read this article in Newsweek online. It states that for the first time, American creativity is decreasing. It’s time to take a proactive approach to include creativity in all of the disciplines.

Around the world, though, other countries are making creativity development a national priority. In 2008 British secondary-school curricula—from science to foreign language—was revamped to emphasize idea generation, and pilot programs have begun using Torrance’s test to assess their progress. The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity, financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults. In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.