In the Newsweek article entitled The Creativity Crisis, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

explore the decline of creativity in American students that has been apparent since the 1990s. Po
Bronson and Ashley Merryman reassert the importance of creativity in innovation, and how innovation
is crucial in todays highly competitive markets. While the United States of Americas education system
has been drifting away from education that spurs creativity, other countries, such as Britain and China,
have put an emphasis on encouraging creativity.
American teachers argue that, due to heavy national curriculum standards, teachers cannot
accommodate creativity class into their classroom without losing their ability to adequately cover the
material that is required by national standards.
Researchers argue that it is possible to implement art and creativity into the curriculum
encouraged by the federal government. Researchers argue that the sciences and art are not mutually
exclusive topics, and in fact can be beneficial to each other.
Psychology reasserts that creativity and logical thinking are not exclusive and are in fact
integrated. Although most of the logical thinking occurs within the left side of the brain, and most of the
creative thinking occurs on the right side of the brain, there is in fact communication between the two
sides, particularly when solving a hard problem that cannot be solved by the two sides working
independently.
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman end their article with why children lose their creativity. They
quote researchers who argue that when students stop asking creative questions is when they lose
interest in learning.