Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Congressional expert previews President Obama's health speech
  Congressional analyst Steven Smith joins Midday to sort through the key issues in the health care reform debate in Congress, and the President's address to Congress and the American people.11:00 a.m.
  Guests
  Steven Smith: Professor of political science and director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Formerly professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.
  More from MPR
  What's your most pressing health care need? (09/08/2009)
  President Obama to visit Minnesota this Saturday (09/09/2009)
  Q & A: How schools are preparing for H1N1 flu (09/08/2009)
  At state fair, Minnesotans and their senators talk health care (09/07/2009)
  GOP candidates debate health care at the fair (09/07/2009)
  Resources
  About Steven Smith
• How to close the achievement gap in America's schools
  Education expert Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children's Zone, discusses the achievement gap between high and low-income students in America and how to close it.12:00 p.m.
  More from MPR
  Minnesota students head back to school (09/08/2009)
  Why is it so hard to learn how to read? (09/07/2009)
  Pawlenty questions motivation of Obama's school speech (09/04/2009)
  Minneapolis schools present new overhaul plan (09/01/2009)
  Resources
  Harlem Children's Zone
  About Geoffrey Canada

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