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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Missouri faculty plan walkout in support of student activists
The teachers said they want to stand in solidarity with students who are demanding racial justice on campus. The news comes a day after some football players joined the cause.
Class clown or gifted student? It's a matter of perspective
The class jokester is often a teacher's greatest nemesis. What if instead of seeing them as a nuisance, a teacher saw them as gifted?
Suit alleges policies promote Twin Cities school segregation
Seven families whose children attend Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Schools are suing the state over policies they say have resulted in high concentrations of poor and minority students in urban schools.