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Recently, Newsweek reported that research shows that creativity in America is declining for the first time. Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered after analyzing roughly 300,000 intelligence test scores of adults and children that since 1990 creativity scores have slowly been declining. The most serious decline occurred in the scores of children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The potential consequences could be damaging to our nation’s long-term economic growth as these youths are the future of our country and creativity and innovation are a large part of our nation’s backbone. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the #1 leadership competency of the future. Below are 7 ways for correcting this issue before it becomes a huge problem.