Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks about education and health care at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. (Dan Bayer/Courtesy of the Aspen Institute)
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2010
The 2010 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.Services
Aspen Ideas Festival 2010
Bill Gates, educator Geoffrey Canada at Aspen
Broadcast: Midday, 07/09/2010, 12:06 p.m.
St. Paul, Minn. — In an afternoon of conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Microsoft Chair Bill Gates discusses his ideas for improving education and health care. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given more than $16 billion in grants since its inception, many to improve education and health care around the world.
Also, taking the stage just after Gates, Geoffrey Canada discusses his work improving education for children who attend the worst performing schools.
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