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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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Challenge to schools: Embracing digital textbooks

Top education officials challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years.

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Tribal members back in classroom for skills, jobs

Tribal members back in classroom for skills, jobs

A program shows promise at luring unemployed adults on the Red Lake Indian Reservation back in the classroom.
by Tom Robertson

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AP: Changes ahead for foreign exchange students

The U.S. State Department is proposing what it calls "significant and controversial" changes to a foreign exchange program that has been exploited by unscrupulous labor brokers and organized criminals in the sex industry.

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Why Inver Hills is targeting middle-ranked students

Why Inver Hills is targeting middle-ranked students

“There are a lot of kids we’re missing with College in the Schools or AP. It’s preparing them for college and actually helping them see that there is potential and they are college material.” —  District 196 Superintendent Jane Berenz to an InverGroveHeightsPatch reporter on why her district is teaming up with Inver Hills Community College to…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Social ineptitude, faked SAT scores and reality TV

100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School #77. It attracts the socially inept. (100rsns.blogspot.com) College administrator faked SAT scores to boost ranking An administrator at Claremont McKenna College admitted he falsified SAT scores to publications such as U.S. News & World Report. (USA Today) Attributive justice The practice of “blind marking” students’ written work has become almost…
by Alex Friedrich

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Controlling college costs

Controlling college costs

President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to control the ever-rising costs of higher education last week at the University of Michigan.

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St. Paul teachers reach tentative contract deal

St. Paul Public Schools and its teachers' union have reached a tentative contract agreement with assistance from an outside mediator.

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