Politicolor » creativity http://www.politicolor.com The Color of Political Theory Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Creativity Deficit http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/the-creativity-deficit/ http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/the-creativity-deficit/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:38:38 +0000 hexxus007 http://www.politicolor.com/?p=796 To my educator friends: when we are confronted by colleagues who feel that drill, rote memorization, and standardized testing is the default position for education reform, we need to make them read this article:

The Creativity Crisis on Newsweek.com

Read the whole article but here’s a clip to consider the scope of the problem…

Like intelligence tests, Torrance’s test—a 90-minute series of discrete tasks, administered by a psychologist—has been taken by millions worldwide in 50 languages. Yet there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.

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