In an era in which students design Web sites for homework assignments and integrate video, graphics, music and animation into school projects, art is fast becoming the new literacy for our times.
This article originally appeared in Educational Leadership Magazine, October 2000. Since then it has been republished in a variety of other sources, and has been translated into a wide variety of languages, including French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Maori, Filipino, Dutch, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, and Japanese.

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