Events: Education Speakers At This Summer's Aspen Ideas Festival

The lineup for this year's Aspen Ideas Festival is out and you're probably not on it (2012 Aspen Ideas Speakers).  But there are lots of education folks listed, and it looks like things are shaping up for a big focus on the character and resilience issues that were the focus of Paul Tough's NYT Sunday Magazine article last September.  Tough and the folks from Riverdale and KIPP are on the list, and his book is slated to come out in September I'm told.  

Click below for my handpicked list of education folks on included in the speakers' agenda.  Let me know if I've missed someone, or if your tea leaves are better or different than mine.  Is anyone going to cover the thing this year, I wonder?  I sure hope there are some education reporters out there. 

Ellen Alberding, President, Joyce Foundation

Melody Barnes, Former Domestic Policy Advisor, The White House

Michael Bennet, US Senator, State of Colorado

Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO

Lawrence J. Cohen, Psychologist; Author, Playful Parenting

Richard Daley, Former Mayor, City of Chicago

Mitch Daniels, Governor, State of Indiana

Rehema Ellis, Education Correspondent, NBC News

Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President, The White House

Dave Levin, Superintendent, KIPP NY; Co-Founder, KIPP

Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Ted Mitchell, President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund

Craig Nixon, Principal, Leadership Development and Education, McChrystal Group

Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami-Dade Community Colleges

Steve Patrick, Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Dominic Randolph, Head of School, Riverdale Country School

Russell Shaw, Head of School, Georgetown Day School

Paul Tough, Author, Whatever It Takes

Darren Walker, Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression, The Ford Foundation

Joanne Weiss, Chief of Staff to the Secretary, US Department of Education