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Addressing an education conference in late 2006, Dan Gioia, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said that we need "a system that grounds all students in pleasure, beauty, and wonder." He added, "If we are going to compete productively with the rest of the world, it's going to be in terms of creativity and innovation."

In reporting this bold statement, Education Week (April 1, 2009) also shared the results of a study of 150 eminent scientists from Pasteur to Einstein completed by Robert Root-Bernstein. He found that nearly all of the great inventors and scientists were also musicians, artists, writers, or poets. Galileo, for example, was a poet and literary critic. Einstein was a passionate student of the violin. And Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was a painter.

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Exchange has packaged six of its play resources into a single Play Tool Kit. and is offering the entire set at a 37% discount. Resources in the kit include:

Books:

• Beginnings Workshops Book #6 - Play
• Promoting the Value of Play CD Book

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• Play and the Outdoors: What's New Under the Sun
• But They're Only Playing: Interpreting Play to Parents
• Supporting Constructive Play in the Wild
• Designing and Creating Natural Play Environments

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