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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.

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Notes in the Margins: Apple, the brain drain and a nontraditional university

Trade secrets: Why some opt for the university alternative While trade school has its benefits, the biggest downfall of it is the stigma of trade schools in society. (USA Today) Pa. college machine dispenses ‘morning-after’ pill The vending machine at Shippensburg University’s Etter Health Center provides the Plan B emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests. (USA…
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Minn. boy suspended for MJ groin grab back in school

The 9-year-old student suspended after mimicking Michael Jackson's famous groin grab dance during a fundraiser at a Catholic elementary school in Winona is back in class.

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Search begins for new UMN-Crookston chancellor

This just in from the U: University of Minnesota begins search for new Crookston chancellor University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and Senior Vice President for System Academic Administration Robert Jones have launched a national search for a new chancellor of the Crookston campus. University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Chancellor Charles H. Casey will retire…
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What is it about the four-year thing that's so tough?

When I started my freshman year at St. Thomas, I assumed I would graduate in four years without a problem. Both my siblings at the University of Minnesota did it, so I assumed I could too. I felt that graduating in anything more than four years—even staying for one extra semester—connoted laziness and, dare I…
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University of Minnesota loses star researcher to Texas

University of Minnesota loses star researcher to Texas

“I have every reason to believe that the University of Minnesota will work with me to understand where that ‘right line’ is.” Former University of Minnesota star heart researcher Doris Taylor, on whether the U, which owns the recellularization techniques she invented there, will cooperate with her on building on them now that she’s at…
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Notes in the Margins: Bathrooms, horrible essays and unpaid internships

The 7 Worst Types Of College Admission Essays For every tortured student, there’s a tortured admissions professional, sifting through an entire forest of paper, looking for an essay that doesn’t scream with gimmick. (The Huffington Post) At Harvard, teachers get a lesson  Lectures, the dominant mode of instruction in classrooms, just do not work, no matter how…
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Junk foods widely available at elementary schools

Junk foods widely available at elementary schools

Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests.

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Why two-year student leaders like Sen. John Carlson

Why two-year student leaders like Sen. John Carlson

Cracking down on tuition must be the way to students’ hearts, at least this year. You may remember how the Minnesota State College Students Association, which represents those at two-year colleges, recently gave Legislator of the Year awards to Republican higher-ed chairs Michelle Fischbach of the Senate and Bud Nornes of the House. Even though…
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Teachers union backs sexuality policy change

Teachers union backs sexuality policy change

The teachers union in Minnesota's largest school district on Monday endorsed a proposed replacement for a policy that requires teachers to stay neutral when issues of sexual orientation come up in class.
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Why MSU-Moorhead is texting students

Why MSU-Moorhead is texting students

“We’re trying to get to their level. Students are texting. They’re using apps. So we’re adjusting.” — Graduate assistant John Edmonds, who specializes in new media for Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s university college office, on how the university is now texting students important information instead of e-mailing it. Apparently, a number of students weren’t…
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