[FAC] Comm.: Imagination is a key ingredient to innovation

[Cynthia Cooper]

Almost nine in ten voters agree that the imagination is a key ingredient to
innovation and student success.
 
A recent national poll conducted by Lake Research Partners has identified a
new and growing constituency of voters in America who advocate building
capacities of the imagination in public education.1 This population of
self-identified voters will readily and strongly support public education
that answers the call for innovation and goes beyond its current focus on
the ³so-called² basics to meet the changing demands of the 21st century. The
finding is consistent with aggregated findings from polling across a
two-year period including the recent Partnership for 21st Century Skills
poll and focus groups conducted by Marmillion + Company, Washington, DC,
which confirmed the strength of America's desire for imagination in
learning.  Moreover, within the growing constituency is a more intensely
committed group of very likely voters ripe for mobilization ­ an ³imagine
nation.² 
 
To read more, visit the FCASH website.

Cynthia Cooper
Executive Director
Fresno Coalition for Arts, Science & History
1401 Fulton Street, S-904, Fresno, CA 93721
559 485 1100 office
ccooper at fcash.org email
http://www.fcash.org  web

2008 Cultural Arts Conference ­ Cultural Leadership, Vision plus Strategy,
Friday, October 17th
Keynote speaker: John King, Tribal Leadership Co-author and CultureSync
partner
Morning presenter: John McGuirk, Program Director, the James Irvine
Foundation