Education by design.

In 1997, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) published a two-year study of how design is being used in pre-K-12 schools, Design as a Catalyst for Learning. The NEA acknowledged the thirty-year contributions of professional designers who bring their content and expertise to the school classroom; however, the focus of the report was on work by classroom teachers who had little or no prior design experience.

Their practices ranged from using design as content (for example, an architecture walk in a history class on colonial America), to professional design projects (for example, ...

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