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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.

MSU-Moorhead still trying for Division I hockey team

MSU-Moorhead Athletic Director Doug Peters is trying to squelch rumors that the university has dropped its bid to start a Division I hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The association reports that Moorhead has collected $17 million of the $29.6 million goal that would get them in, and The Advocate writes the deadline…
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Notes in the Margins: Indiana Jones, SAT cheating and Apple

Accurate role models as hard to find as the Holy Grail itself One professor has had enough of Hollywood’s clichéd depictions of faculty. (Times Higher Education) NY Bill Would Make Crimes Out Of SAT Cheating The measure, proposed by Sen. Kenneth LaValle of Suffolk County, would create new felonies of facilitation of education testing fraud and of…
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OHE chief: Remediation should come earlier than college

OHE chief: Remediation should come earlier than college

During State Office of Higher Education Director Larry Pogemiller’s introductory address to the House higher-education committee, Vice Chairman Bob Dettmer (R-Forest Lake) brought up the need to deal with remediation. He recalled cases in which non-native English speakers would arrive in Minnesota with few English skills and start as freshmen in high school. After graduation,…
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OHE's Pogemiller takes some heat from a fellow DFLer

OHE's Pogemiller takes some heat from a fellow DFLer

Minnesota Office of Higher Education Director Larry Pogemiller didn’t have the easiest first appearance before the state House higher-education committee. He started his address to the committee saying he was hoping to beef up the research and consultative components of the office, which he said in years past hasn’t been as strong or well-regarded as…
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Pogemiller's presentation to the House higher-ed committee

Here’s the PowerPoint presentation that state Office of Higher Education Director Larry Pogemiller has been giving during the hearing.
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Ellison co-sponsoring bill on Stafford Loan interest rate

Ellison co-sponsoring bill on Stafford Loan interest rate

Just got this: Ellison Co-Sponsors Legislation to Prevent Student Loan Rate Increase Today, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) joined Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) as an original cosponsor of H.R. 3826, which fulfills the President’s State of the Union request to ensure that interest rates for undergraduate Stafford Loans do not double this summer. In 2007, Congress…
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Report: The state of Minnesota higher education

Here’s the most recent version of Minnesota Measures, the state Office of Higher Education’s report to the legislature on the state of higher ed here. I’ve just received it, so I haven’t had time to go through it yet. Director Larry Pogemiller will be going over the highlights in his 12:30 address to the House…
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UMN video: Why a public research university is important

UMN video: Why a public research university is important

Here’s a video that University of Minnesota spokesman Jeff Falk says the U’s government relations team is sharing with legislators this session — just to drive their point home, I suppose.  
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