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1. Attract artists, scientists, engineers and other creative types and wealth will follow.
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class
2. In all models, (economic) growth is significantly better predicted by creativity than by education.
Gerard Marlet, Clemens van Woerkens (2005). Skills and Creativity in a Cross-section of Dutch Cities. Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Discussion Paper Series nr: 04-29,
http://www.creativeclass.org/acrobat/dutchcities.pdf?LibraryID=11509#PresenterBio
3. Data shows that 19 of out 100 High School Freshman graduate from college.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Education/
CROP stands for Communities Resolving Our Problems. This web based problem processor addresses each of the 3 references above. It develops a harvest of real community questions as fuel for thinking (1). It organizes a tool set for creative activity (2). CROP provides authentic engagement for the disconnected (3).
Posterinternet.html - paper tools for getting started
CROP is a process and organized tool set that provides a foundation for thriving in the 21st century with the power of digital literacy. Creative thinking and creative curriculums shares a common base, an interest and a system for generating and responding to questions. CROP is a web site that connects the dots by providing models and tools for questioning and solving problems of use by all creative curriculums and entrepreneurial activity. CROP builds systems for finding, trading, sharing and solving problems on paper and online. Learning begins with questioning. Solutions begin with questioning and so does regional development.
See also: DRAFT (Microsoft Word file, 14 page paper) -- Houghton, R.S. (2005). 21ST CENTURY FUSION: Research and Measurement that Enables the Creative Class.
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