Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Back to school with the education commissioner
  MIDDAY's traditional back to school program with the education commissioner and the head of the school administrators. What's new this school year, what's not, and what should be changed?11:00 a.m.
  Guests
  Alice Seagren: Minnesota Education Commissioner, former State Representative and former school board member.
  Charlie Kyte: executive director of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators. Former superintendent, former high school principal and former math, physics and chemistry teacher.
  More from MPR
  Minnesota schools falling behind on No Child Left Behind standards (08/30/2007)
  One in four Minnesota school districts will ask voters for funding (09/04/2007)
• Education must fit childrens' brains
  Pediatrician Mel Levine of the University of North Carolina speaks at the Chautauqua Institution in New York about ways to adapt educational techniques to the way childrens' brains actually work.12:00 p.m.
  Guests
  Mel Levine: Pediatrician and child development expert at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Levine is co-founder of 'All Kinds of Minds' and author of 'A Mind at a Time' and 'The Myth of Laziness.'
  Resources
  Mel Levine's 'All Kinds of Minds' website

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