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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UMN dean leaves to run refugee advocacy organization
Humphrey School Dean Eric Schwartz will step aside at the end of the academic year to be president of an organization based out of Washington D.C.
Writer says NCAA is a cartel making billions
On the eve of the NCAA basketball tournament, Joe Nocera concludes that the NCAA is nothing more than a cartel whose rules are fundamentally designed to ensure that the players have no money, no rights and no power.
How government policy disfavors the young
Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth says millennials will have a more difficult time achieving success than young people had in the past because government policies benefit older people and leave the young with few choices and a mountain of debt.
Dr. Sophia Vinogradov took over the University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry after a report revealed they failed to protect a patient who committed suicide.
The decision to remove Reidar Dittmann's name from Dittmann Center follows a school investigation into sexual misconduct claims involving the late professor.