"Research indicates that imagination starts with a child's play-instinct. This is the ability for children to recreate something with themselves as a centerpiece...Perhaps the sorriest part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the fact that the total emphasis is on standardized testing results and offers no incentives for the creative. Not that these are two mutually exclusive goals, but given a limited amount of time in a school year, it is easier to just stress the cognitive data rather than salute both inductive and deductive solutions to problems from a variety of perceptions."
from...
Ten Steps for Tapping Into Your Child's Imagination
By Alan Haskvitz
http://www.brainy-child.com/article/child-imagination.shtml
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