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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.

How often are Minnesotans defaulting on student loans?

Here’s Minnesota’s latest 2- and 3-year default rates on student loans, as compiled by the state Office of Higher Education (OHE). The data was released rather quietly late last week by the U.S. Department of Education, and state analyst Tricia Grimes was able to release her work yesterday. The office should release the final report…
by Alex Friedrich

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Prickly debate over contours of Minn. teacher evaluations

Prickly debate over contours of Minn. teacher evaluations

A new law will require Minnesota school districts to evaluate all of the state's more than 50,000 public school teachers every year starting in the 2014-15 school year.
by Tim Post

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Mpls South High was in lockdown

Minneapolis South high school was on lockdown today because of an unspecified concern.
by Tim Post

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Education chief wants textbooks to go digital

Education chief wants textbooks to go digital

Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it.

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Minn. Education Dept. to unveil schools' plans to improve performance

Minn. Education Dept. to unveil schools' plans to improve performance

The state Department of Education will release plans by the state's lowest-performing schools to improve student performance. The plans, which require the state's 130 lowest-performing schools to show how they intend to turn things around, represent another step in how the state has changed its system to evaluate schools' performance.
by Tim Post

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Newspaper: Test security inconsistent among states

The federal government has no standards to protect the integrity of the achievement tests it requires in tens of thousands of public schools, and test security among the states is so inconsistent that Americans can't be sure those all-important test scores are legitimate, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

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The Week in Commentary

The Week in Commentary

A summary of the past week's commentaries and some of the comments we received in response.

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Old Mpls. school closer to wrecking ball

A Minneapolis City Council committee has voted to allow the demolition of a 54-year-old elementary school on the city's north side.
by Curtis Gilbert

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Hiring at Minn. schools up 7.6 percent

Minnesota schools are hiring more people, following a couple years of job losses.

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Student debt stretches to record 1 in 5 households

Student debt stretches to record 1 in 5 households

With college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households — nearly 1 in 5 -- with the biggest burdens falling on the young and poor.

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