The 2009 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
Why is it so hard to learn how to read?
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Three education experts -- a brain scientist, a former U.S. secretary of education, and the head of a reading institute -- discuss why it's so difficult to learn to read, and how we can help kids master the skill. They spoke at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Patricia Kuhl: co-director of the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and co-author of "The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn."
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Margaret Spellings: former United States Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush.
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Claiborne Barksdale: CEO of Barksdale Reading Institute in Oxford, Mississippi.
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