--- --- # Audiobooks Can Help Kids Who Struggle With Reading by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 27, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 27, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Audiobooks can help kids who struggle with reading. Here’s how.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/10/23/how-audiobooks-can-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/) By Linda Flanagan at KQED’s MindShift **2\.** [**Can bootcamps create tech blue-collar job skills around the world?**](http://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/how-are-future-blue-collar-skills-being-created) By Victor Mulas at the World Bank Private Sector Development Blog **3\.** [**This is how living in a walkable city can improve early childhood development.**](https://ssir.org/articles/entry/why%5Fwalking%5Fis%5Fso%5Fgood%5Ffor%5Fparents%5Ftoddlers%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fcities%5Fwhere%5Fthey%5Flive) By Michael Feigelson in the Stanford Social Innovation Review **4\.** [**Once your brain gets accustomed to telling little lies, it lets you tell bigger ones.**](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fc77b853aff6457eb3a99527fb4ba027/slippery-slope-study-finds-little-lies-lead-bigger-ones) By Seth Borenstein at the Associated Press **5\.** [**Millennials are skeptical about our democracy. We can change that.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-23/democracy-turns-off-millennials-it-doesn-t-have-to) By Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg View  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Audiobooks Can Help Kids Who Struggle With Reading ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4547670/audiobooks-can-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4547670/audiobooks-can-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/"},"headline":"Audiobooks Can Help Kids Who Struggle With Reading","datePublished":"2016-10-27T16:00:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:23.289Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4547670/audiobooks-can-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/","keywords":["Innovation","Jobs","Education","democracy","lying"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4547670/audiobooks-can-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/","name":"Audiobooks Can Help Kids Who Struggle With Reading"}}]}] ```