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Minot lawyer defends UND's Fighting Sioux nickname

Reed Soderstrom chairs the referendum committee that's working to keep the UND "Fighting Sioux" name.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Anoka-Hennepin superintendent 'sincerely' apologizes for voice mail

Anoka-Hennepin superintendent 'sincerely' apologizes for voice mail

Referring to a controversial voice mail from two years ago, Dennis Carlson, superintendent of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, says in a letter: "If my December 2010 statement was perceived as dismissive or insensitive to victims of bullying or suicide, I deeply andsincerely apologize. I absolutely meant no disrespect."
by Curtis Gilbert

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Twin Cities charter schools more segregated and underperforming, report says

Twin Cities charter schools more segregated and underperforming, report says

Charter schools in the Twin Cities metro area underperform academically in comparison to their traditional public counterparts, shows a report released today.
by Tim Post

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Have these two factors helped cause a job-skills shortage?

Have these two factors helped cause a job-skills shortage?

Here’s an American RadioWorks podcast on manufacturing jobs that gets into the “jobs-skills mismatch” argument a little. (Note: Click on the “Download” link if it doesn’t play on my blog.) It got me thinking: Has something indeed changed that has caused a drop in the number of workers who are skilled enough to enter those…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Santorum, older grads, and hot for teacher

Liberal learning: Only for the elite? President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative has thrown our nation into a global contest for primacy in college attainment. It also, arguably, threatens to seed a sort of class system in American higher education. Other nations already unabashedly steer students into distinct tracks: baccalaureate degrees for the privileged, and career…
by Alex Friedrich

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New management for school trust lands bill advances

On a mostly party line vote Thursday, the House Environment Committee approved a bill to remove management of school trust lands from the DNR.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Sviggum decision could wait till early next week

I’ve just gotten off the phone with University of Minnesota Board of Regents Chairwoman Linda Cohen, who told me she’s not expecting to get the second opinion (the outside one) on the Steve Sviggum matter till Monday. So she might not make a decision till then — at the earliest — on what to do.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Have we all been suckered in by that jobs-skills mismatch argument?

In the past year or so I’ve written and reposted a number of articles on the supposed jobs-skills mismatch in Minnesota (and America overall), and some questions have slowly started to nag me. Among them: How can it really be that despite all of our top-flight educational resources there’s a mismatch — and that it’s…
by Alex Friedrich

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Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Census: How Minnesota stacks up in science and engineering

Just got off a conference call regarding some higher-ed results from the U.S. Census. I still have to download and go through the results to see what kind of state-by-state results it has, but for now I’ll give you the chart above. (Don’t expect any time comparisons, though. I was told this was the first…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bill would extend Minnesota's prone restraint law until late 2013

Bill would extend Minnesota's prone restraint law until late 2013

A state House committee discussed legislation Thursday that would allow schools to keep using a controversial physical restraint to subdue or calm students with severe mental health disabilities.
by Tom Weber

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