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Mountain biking booms among Minnesota high schoolers
This weekend more than 700 student mountain bike racers will come to Duluth for the final regular season race of the Minnesota High School cycling league. In just six years, the league has grown to over 1,300 riders from more than 100 schools around the state.
In historic change, Boy Scouts to let girls in some programs
Under the plan, Cub Scout dens -- the smallest unit -- will be single-gender, either all-boys or all-girls. The larger Cub Scout packs will have the option to remain single gender or welcome both genders.
System officials said the plan calls for keeping Wisconsin's two-year colleges open but making them essentially regional branches of the four-year schools.
Aspen Ideas Festival: American values embodied in the Constitution
Norman Lear and Khizr Khan speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the American values embodied in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
"It's a classification based on 1970s ideals about what boys should be doing and what girls should be doing," Thompson told The Associated Press. The Pacific Legal Foundation wants the high school league to allow any boy in Minnesota to dance competitively.
Is there free speech on college campuses?
Joanna Williams wants to know why so many college students don't want to hear, or have the opportunity to challenge, controversial and opposing views.
After 3 years under ISIS, Mosul's children go back to school
Children are returning to school after missing years of classes when ISIS controlled the city. Iraqi forces retook Mosul over the summer. "We want you to succeed," a principal tells schoolchildren.
MPR Reporter Elizabeth Dunbar joined the program for a conversation about how some people struggle to connect the food on their plate to the farm where it was produced.
Betsy DeVos' first semester: a status report
Charter schools, student loans, HBCUs, campus sexual assault: Here's what the education secretary has been up to.