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Laurel Bauer, owner of the Dinkytown institution House of Hanson — which has been in her family for more than 80 years — tells the Star Tribune how she’s reacting to the impending closure of the grocery store: “I cried my way to work this morning.” The store will be demolished, possibly this week, to…
A Classic High Achiever, Minus Money for a College Consultant Travis Reginal and Justin Porter were friends back in Jackson, Miss. They attended William B. Murrah High School, which is 97 percent African-American and 67 percent low income. Murrah is no Ivy feeder. Low-income students rarely apply to the nation’s best colleges. But Mr. Porter just completed a…
The University of Minnesota-based National Center for Food Protection and Defense has signed an agreement with Chinese officials to increase security of the food supply.
Are enthusiasts of Massive Open Online Courses right that they can truly transform higher education? After months of writing regularly about MOOCs, I decided to become one of the millions who've signed up for these free online courses and -- far more exclusively -- one of the approximately 10 percent who finish.
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Major innovations -- forged by the struggles of the Great Recession and fostered by technology -- are coming to higher education. Investment dollars are flooding in amd the computing power of "the cloud" and "big data" are unleashing new software. Public officials, desperate to cut costs and measure results, are open to change. And everyone, it seems, is talking about MOOCs, the "Massive Open Online Courses" offered by elite universities and enrolling millions worldwide.
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There are lots of questions for high school grads. Does it really matter where you go? If we're comparing top-tier schools with open-access ones, then yes. It matters a whole lot, and it has long-lasting effects.
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Crystal Brakke, executive director of Teach for America in the Twin Cities, tells MPR reporter Tim Post about this year’s crop of trainees: “I think this group is among the best prepared and strongest right out of the gate in terms of what I saw them doing with their kids over the summer.” The Minnesota…
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