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Aspen Ideas Festival: Three youths affected by gun violence
Two high school girls from Parkland, Florida and a high school boy from the south side of Chicago talk about gun violence.
MN Supreme Court: OK to proceed on school segregation suit
State courts can decide whether Minnesota has failed in its responsibility to teach poor students and students of color, the Minnesota Supreme Court said Wednesday.
Ground Level: The real St. Cloud
Nearly 50 people gathered at the Great River Regional Library in St. Cloud to discuss the past and the future of this once-small central Minnesota town on the Mississippi River.
State Human Rights Commissioner Kevin Lindsey will hold a meeting with parents and community members in Rochester Wednesday evening, to discuss the increasing number of suspensions of students of color and students with disabilities.
Scared of math? Here's one way to fight the fear
Kids and grown-ups can both experience anxiety when it comes to math. One college professor has an assignment to help banish the dread.
McNally Smith's bankruptcy closes major sale, but students and faculty owed money still in limbo
The mortgage holders on the downtown St. Paul school building are almost certain to get the building. But that doesn't mean students and faculty members owed money will get much, if anything, out of the liquidation of the music college.
Conservative groups are suing the University of Minnesota, arguing that the school violated their free speech rights by moving a conservative speaker to its smaller St. Paul campus.
Senators to DeVos on TEACH grant debacle: 'Urgent that these mistakes are fixed'
New documents obtained by NPR show that nearly 11,000 TEACH recipients may have lost their grants because of mistakes by the loan servicer, but only a small fraction of the problems were ever fixed.