A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future is a book by Daniel H. Pink that gives a lot of support for the arts in education. He makes a case for the need to be creative, inventive, empathetic, meaningful in order to be successful in the future.  The purely logical, linear skills will not suffice in a world where computer programs can take the place of jobs while other jobs are shipped overseas. This book elevates the skills of artists, and the skills prioritized by art education, to an essential level, and shows us what some of us knew all along--you have to have art.