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Parents say school should have warned them of dangers before Lilydale park landslide

Parents say school should have warned them of dangers before Lilydale park landslide

The city of St. Paul warns visitors that parts of Lilydale Regional Park are hazardous and unsafe. But when two fourth-grade classes from a St. Louis Park elementary school took a field trip to the park in May, the school did not relay that warning to parents.
by Curtis Gilbert and Trisha Volpe

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A small college walks off the playing field

A small college walks off the playing field

Spelman College decided to invest instead in a campus-wide wellness program. Should other schools do the same?

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The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

For all the talk of the benefits of flipped classrooms, I realized one drawback — if you want to call it that — during a recent interview with a St. Mary’s University of Minnesota student and professor: They’re a heck of a lot of work. In flipped classrooms, the timing of the lecture is turned…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

In a Minnesota Daily story on flipped classrooms, University of Minnesota  chemistry freshman Jessica Wyatt says she likes the prof-at-the-podium model just fine, thank you very much: “Flipped classrooms at the [University] are really obnoxious, because you don’t get the lecture-style learning that you’re looking forward to when you go to college.” So take that,…
by Alex Friedrich

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What issues UMN regent Laura Brod still has with the Dream Act

What issues UMN regent Laura Brod still has with the Dream Act

At the last University of Minnesota (UMN) Board of Regents meeting, I tweeted the concerns that regent Laura Brod expressed with the U’s move to give in-state tuition rates to unauthorized immigrant students who live in Minnesota. The state Legislature had set that tuition change in motion this spring when it passed the so-called “Minnesota…
by Alex Friedrich

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‘Robust’ cells draw bone marrow group to campus

‘Robust’ cells draw bone marrow group to campus

National account executive Nadya Dutchin of Be the Match tells MPR’s Lorna Benson why the bone marrow donor recruitment organization is targeting college students as potential contributors: “The cells that are coming from younger people are just much more robust. And they’re able to do a better job in the patient.” The Minneapolis nonprofit is…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pepper spray, campaign contributions and Canada’s green campuses

For-profit colleges giving big to helpful House members House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the industry preserve its access to federal student loans. (USA Today) Rebooting online education The disappointing results from San Jose State’s experiment with…
by Alex Friedrich

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What some Minnesota university students say about the Senate interest-rate deal

What some Minnesota university students say about the Senate interest-rate deal

It’s about time we got a little student perspective on the Senate’s deal over Stafford loan interest rates, which could come to a vote as early as today. I just got this announcement from the Minnesota State University Student Association, a group representing students at Minnesota’s four-year state-run campuses. They don’t like the proposed legislation,…
by Alex Friedrich

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You Should Meet: Wendy DeGeest

You Should Meet: Wendy DeGeest

Wendy DeGeest once planned a life as an elementary school teacher.  Then she found the kids who really needed her and everything became clear. It was the 1980s and Pine City, Minn., needed a special education teacher. Growing up in a family that struggled with mental illness, DeGeest knew something about the wayward ways of…
by Bob Collins

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Teachers say digital technology helps and hurts student writing

Teachers say digital technology helps and hurts student writing

The Pew Center's Internet and American Life Project recently surveyed nearly 2,500 middle and high school teachers across the country about the writing habits of students.
by Tim Post

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