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Block that click! High school sports go digital
At least a few Minnesota schools have begun to treat gaming as an organized, competitive sport.
St. Paul school board votes for later start time for older students
The St. Paul school board voted to push high school and middle school start times to 8:30 a.m., citing research that teenagers are biologically programmed to sleep later.
Educators employ strategies to help kids with anxiety return to school
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America estimates anxiety-based school refusal affects 2 to 5 percent of school-age children. It is often triggered by an underlying mental health issue.
MEA weekend travel rush nears for Minnesotans with school-age kids
The state's annual teachers convention creates a four-day weekend for Minnesota students and their families in October. Many will be traveling this week, and MSP airport is urging people to be ready for the kid crush.
Corruption probe prompts reviews of NCAA teams
More than two dozen universities with major hoops programs have responded to news of the sport's bribery scandal by conducting internal reviews of their compliance operations.
Sturgis Brown High School was scheduled to play Pine Ridge School, from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, on Friday. Photos posted on social media show students destroying a car with "Go back to the Rez" painted on the side.
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.