Education

At StoryCorps in 2010, the Rev. Farrell Duncombe remembered those who shaped him — like Rosa Parks, his former Sunday school teacher. "These are the people that nurtured me. These are the people who saw me when I was still Little Farrell and now I'm their pastor," he said. Duncombe died last week at age 78.

Undergraduate college enrollment fell again this spring, down nearly 5 percent from a year ago. "It's really the end of a truly frightening year for higher education," one researcher says.

Minnesota's high school graduation rate held steady for the Class of 2020, despite an abrupt shift toward the end of its senior year as the early stage of the pandemic shuttered school buildings across the state. But schools haven’t managed to shake their nearly worst-in-the-nation education inequalities.

Edgar Omar Dominguez Casalez is on the cusp of becoming the first in his family to go to college. His story, which includes a mentor, a horse and the pandemic, says a lot about the good things that can happen when determined kids in difficult circumstances connect with adults who can help guide their dreams. 

Edgar Omar Dominguez Casalez está a punto de convertirse en el primero de su familia en ir a la universidad. Su historia, que incluye un mentor, un caballo y la pandemia, dice mucho sobre las cosas buenas que pueden suceder cuando jóvenes decididos en circunstancias difíciles, conectan con adultos que pueden ayudar a guiar sus sueños.

Minnesota lawmakers are heading toward a special session next week with very little settled on the budget they need to pass by month’s end to avoid a government shutdown. One of the big sticking points is education funding and whether some money for public schools should be allowed to flow to private schools.

St. Paul school district leaders are canceling all district classes for the week due to the heat wave, bringing an early end to the school year. The Minneapolis district is keeping students home from 15 schools Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday because of the heat.

In the upheaval following the murder of George Floyd, passionate debates ignited across America about what to do with the remnants of the Civil War. It divided one in Jacksonville, Fla.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Sunday that flags on all federal buildings be flown at half-staff to honor more than 200 children whose remains have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.