Education News

MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

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Minnesota Senate backs snow-day relief for schools
Minnesota school districts are halfway to winning flexibility from the Legislature to write off the winter's snow days.
MN school sees gains when kids' art, social needs take center stage
In Rochester, an arts-focused elementary school has brought health care, social services and other family needs under its roof. Leaders say the whole effort is helping at-risk children. Challenges remain, but the school's caught the attention of the Walz administration.
School lessons targeted by climate change doubters
As climate change becomes a hotter topic in American classrooms, politicians around the country are pushing back against the near-universal scientific consensus that global warming is real, dire and man-made.
One reason rural students don't go to college: Colleges don't go to them
"People tend to overlook the rural areas," says David Hochstetler, a high school senior in rural Michigan. "I think it's kind of disappointing because some able students could get looked over."
Is your child an orchid or a dandelion? Unlocking the science of sensitive kids
Some kids seem resilient from the start -- readily able, like dandelions, to cope with stress and adversity. But pediatrician Thomas Boyce says biologically reactive kids need more support to thrive.
Higher education: Colleges add cannabis to the curriculum
As a green gold rush in legal marijuana and its non-drug cousin hemp spreads across North America, a growing number of colleges are adding cannabis to the curriculum to prepare graduates for careers cultivating, researching, analyzing and marketing the herb.
Improving the quality of care for the youngest Minnesotans, those 3 years old and younger, can help close the achievement gaps that open in later grades.