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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.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Notes in the Margins: Testing, 24-hour dining and privatization of higher ed

U-Md. and Johns Hopkins offer specialized sequences of online courses via Coursera  The campuses are among the first to offer specialty sequences of courses. Hopkins is listing a sequence of nine MOOCs in data science, with certificates available to those who pass all nine, complete a capstone project and pay $490. (The Washington Post) Is the Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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State wants rural schools to go back to five-day weeks, despite savings

School district officials say a four-day schedule works well for students and their communities. But Minnesota Department of Education officials would like to see the shortened weeks go the way of the one-room schoolhouse.
by Tim Post

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Task force wants to scrap Minn. teacher tests

An education task force has recommended that state lawmakers eliminate a basic skills test that all Minnesota teachers are required to pass, though a minority of task force members disagreed.
by The Associated Press

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Is Pine Tech’s bid for community-college status part of a trend?

Is Pine Tech’s bid for community-college status part of a trend?

Pine Technical College‘s attempt to become Pine Technical and Community College is part of a long-term change among Minnesota’s technical colleges. A handful of technical colleges have become comprehensive campuses in the last decade or so, leaving another handful with a purely technical orientation. Pine’s bid to become a comprehensive campus comes a workforce development Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Contraception, the leadership obsession and a job guarantee

Utopian Pasts and Futures The belief that the liberal arts and sciences should be central to higher education rests on a distinctively American idea. The criticism of this kind of education, and the insistence in much of the national debate today about the priority of training in vocational skills, is also a distinctively American idea. (The Huffington Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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When temps plummet, how do school districts decide when to close?

When temps plummet, how do school districts decide when to close?

How district officials make the often-difficult decision depends on a number of factors. Sometimes it has to do with diesel. At other times it's about gloves.
by Tim Post and Liala Helal

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Chancellor: Campuses will control MnSCU’s transformation

Chancellor: Campuses will control MnSCU’s transformation

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system Chancellor Steven Rosenstone — who has faced faculty suspicion that he’s trying to centralize decision-making — says in the Pioneer Press that he won’t try to micromanage the committees carrying out his overhaul of the system: “The people doing the work have to be the ones at the Read more →
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MnSCU names two interim campus presidents, academic chief

MnSCU names two interim campus presidents, academic chief

As I mentioned in my story on Metropolitan State University yesterday, St. Cloud State University Provost Devinder Malhotra has been named interim president of Metro State. He starts July 1, and his term is for two years. He’s the second interim president named yesterday. Lisa Larson will be taking charge at North Hennepin Community College Read more →
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Notes in the Margins: Stereotypes, undermatching and a book-sales dip

Federal task force to target campus sexual assaults The announcement is seen as a victory by many college activists, who have organized in recent years to file federal complaints against administrators. (Los Angeles Times) Textbook CFO: U.S. Higher-Education Recovery Unlikely This Year Pearson’s finance chief said Thursday that the publisher’s core U.S. higher-education business faces Read more →
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U of M officials making case for bonding bill funds

U of M officials making case for bonding bill funds

We look at the University's overall financial picture and the appropriate role of state funding.

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