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A. R. MacKinnon, Director of Research for the Toronto Board of Education, will give the annual Burton Lecture on Elementary Education, Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Fogg Art Museum large lecture hall. MacKinnon will speak on "Insistent Tasks in Language Learning." The lecture, under the auspices of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is free and open to the public.

MacKinnon's book, "How DO Children Learn to Read?" was published in 1959. He has also contributed articles to Canadian educational and research journals.

The Burton Lecture was founded in 1953 by a gift from William H. Burton, a lecturer on principles of teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1939 to 1955, and his wife.

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