Introduction.(Brief Article)

The following symposium articles are the first foray by Arts Education Policy Review into a broad topic of increasing importance in schools today, media literacy. The first article, our launching pad if you will, is a reprint of a major chapter of a book published late last year by :Simon and Schuster: Ready or Not, by Kay S. Hymowitz, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute in New York. The essay provides a provocative overview of how media are reshaping not just the habits and spending, but the minds of modern youth, especially the group now demographically known as ...