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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.

What a Brookings fellow told MPR about the student-loan interest rate debate

What a Brookings fellow told MPR about the student-loan interest rate debate

Here’s a rough transcript of this morning’s Daily Circuit segment on the deal reached in Congress over the student-loan interest rate battle. It would extend the 3.4 percent rate another year, thus avoiding the doubling of the rate to 6.8 percent July 1. (You may remember U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison’s stance on interest rates, which…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pells, college boards and saving vo-tech education

Trying to save vocational education Many American adolescents don’t want to go to college. They reject as boring and aggravating the Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and other college-level courses offered to them in high school. Yet, they need reading, writing, math and time-management skills for good jobs or trade school slots when they graduate. How can they be…
by Alex Friedrich

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Congress reaches deal on student loan legislation

Congress reaches deal on student loan legislation

Congress reached a deal this week that will prevent student loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent for the next year. With another temporary fix from Congress, what happens in a year from now?

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What Brown College said about its gainful-employment data

In my short radio report yesterday, I mentioned that the only Minnesota programs that did not meet the federal Gainful Employment test — meaning they failed to meet all three benchmarks — were three from Brown College in Mendota Heights. That’s what the data showed, and just to make sure, I ran that by the…
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Notes in the Margins: Bad professors, placement tests and debt

Massive college debt can burden graduates for decades Higher education costs are being passed on to students and their families, who find themselves deeper into debt as the tuition bill climbs. (USA Today) Community college tries an alternative to placement tests The two-year college is making some placement decisions based on new students’ high school…
by Alex Friedrich

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Nearly all of Minn.'s colleges pass 'gainful employment' test

Of almost 600 career-training programs in the state, only three failed the so-called "gainful employment" evaluation, a federal test of how well their programs pay off for graduates.

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For-profit schools could lose federal aid

Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they don't improve, new data from the U.S. Department of Education finds.

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Mortuary student opposing UMN Facebook policy found dead

“Her central nervous system does not function properly, and she needs electric spinal cord stimulators in her body to be able to move.” — Jordan Kushner, attorney for Amanda Tatro, in a legal brief filed in Tatro’s recent Facebook free-speech case against the University of Minnesota, as reported by the Pioneer Press. The Pioneer Press…
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Summer school program gives incoming freshmen a jump start

Summer school program gives incoming freshmen a jump start

The Minneapolis School District is working to take some of the sting and stigma out of summer school for soon-to-be freshmen, by giving them high school credit for their work.
by Tim Post

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