--- title: Five Best Ideas: Education Will Help the Kids of Flint description: Education is the best medicine for the kids of Flint, there’s a ‘magic window’ to protect your kids from peanut allergies and more. canonical: https://time.com/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-06T17:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:12.152Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Education Will Help the Kids of Flint og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Education Will Help the Kids of Flint twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Education Will Help the Kids of Flint by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The best medicine for the kids of Flint: Education.**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/flints-lead-crisis-important-medication-kids-education/) By Hari Sreenivasan at PBS Newshour **2\.** [**There’s a ‘magic window’ to protect your kids from peanut allergies.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/05/peanut-allergy-infants/) By Leah Samuel in STAT **3\.** [**Here’s how to protect smart medical devices from hackers.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/27/14095166/fda-guidance-medical-device-cybersecurity-cyberattack-hacking-guidelines) By Rachel Becker in the Verge **4\.** [**The military ranking system is America’s true aristocracy. We should reboot it.**](https://psmag.com/the-u-s-military-needs-a-major-makeover-49bce0a6aab4#.t599uaizq) By David Spencer in _Pacific Standard_ **5\.** [**It was fear of globalization, not globalization itself, that killed the American TV business.**](http://qz.com/863121/the-origin-of-your-tv-set-is-a-simple-lesson-in-the-dangers-of-ignoring-globalization/) By Ana Campoy in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/"},"headline":"Education Will Help the Kids of Flint","datePublished":"2017-01-06T17:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:12.152Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/","keywords":["Innovation","Military","medicine","Television","allergies","Flint"],"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/4625777/education-will-help-the-kids-of-flint/","name":"Education Will Help the Kids of Flint"}}]}] ```