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At 90, 'Grammy Mac' still helping young readers

At 90, 'Grammy Mac' still helping young readers

Every year, Virginia "Grammy Mac" McNear is the foster grandparent assigned to Jo Cornell's first-grade room at Kennedy Elementary School in Mankato. And every year she gets to see the progress her young readers make from the start of fall to beginning of summer vacation.

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New frontier for scaling up online classes: credit

A year ago, hardly anybody knew what a "massive open online course" (MOOC) was. But the Internet-based courses offered by elite universities through Coursera, by a consortium led by Harvard and MIT called edX, and by others, are proving wildly popular, with some classes attracting hundreds of thousands of students.

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2 Minn. students among Rhodes Scholars for 2013

2 Minn. students among Rhodes Scholars for 2013

Thirty-two American students were named Sunday in the newest group of Rhodes Scholars and will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University.

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UW-Madison panel approves funding for atheist group

UW-Madison panel approves funding for atheist group

An atheist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could receive almost $70,000 in student fees for programming costs, an apparent first for the college and student atheist groups nationwide.

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US colleges look to foreign students

US colleges look to foreign students

New figures and universities grew nearly 6 percent last year, driven by a 23-percent increase from China, even as total enrollment was leveling out. But perhaps more revealing is where much of the growth is concentrated: big, public land-grant colleges, notably in the Midwest.

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