Arts Education and School Improvement Resources for Local and State Leaders U.S. Department of Education April 1997 (Updates March 1999)

Prepared by
Terry Peterson and Sarah Howes
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Education

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"Remember, all the people we honor today were once in an ordinary community in an ordinary neighborhood living only with the imagination they had that brought them to this day and this honor. We have to find that imagination and fire it in the children all over America."

President Bill Clinton
National Medal of Arts Ceremony

"...Art in all its distinct forms defines, in many ways, those qualities that are at the heart of education reform in the 1990's -- creativity, perseverance, a sense of standards, and, above all, a striving for excellence."

Richard W. Riley
U.S. Secretary of Education

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