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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.

The campus innovation Minnesota students couldn't live without

The campus innovation Minnesota students couldn't live without

Ah, so this is what an official “water-bottle-filling station” or “hydration station” looks like. Advocate photo editor Jessica Fleming recently caught it in action at MSU-Moorhead. Note the functionality breakthroughs: The user’s mouth never has to approach the fluid-dispensory component, which makes the station much more accessible than its Water 1.0 counterparts. The interface is clearly…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Alcohol, resume oblivion and hitting the books

Your Résumé vs. Oblivion Tracking software has its pitfalls. It may miss the most-qualified applicant if that person doesn’t game the system by larding his or her résumé with keywords from the job description. (The Wall Street Journal) Why Education Publishing Is Big Business One after another, Apple, Inkling, Barnes & Noble and other digital publishers have…
by Alex Friedrich

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President's remarks buoy supporters of raising dropout age

President's remarks buoy supporters of raising dropout age

Minnesota supporters of raising the minimum school dropout age say they're buoyed by the president's mention of the issue.
by Tom Weber

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A cause that Moorhead students can rally around

A cause that Moorhead students can rally around

Andrea [bah! la realta!] via Flickr Moorhead, these are called “water pipes” — I think. The ’60s and ’70s are still alive at Minnesota State University – Moorhead, from what The Advocate student paper is reporting. Some Moorhead residents are fighting an ordinance banning products that could be construed as drug paraphernalia, which is apparently…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Sen. Bakk wrote Kaler about the U's union literature

Read the third paragraph. Sen. Thomas Bakk (DFL-Cook) appears to take exception with the way the University of Minnesota is presenting the grad-student union drive.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Obama, private dorms and no-money-down student loans

Obama on (higher) education in State of the Union address Here’s the part of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address that was about education, taken from a text prepared for delivery, (The Washington Post) Renaissance Man For two and a half years, Jeremy Gleick, a sophomore majoring in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, has…
by Alex Friedrich

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Parents worry budget plan could close schools

Parents of students in the East Metro Integration District are worried a new budget plan is a back-door attempt to close the district's two schools.
by Tom Weber

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Photo: What your college students are really doing in class

Photo: What your college students are really doing in class

I’m sure you faculty have already dissected your own classes. Do they look like this? Got this from The Huffington Post, which notes that the photo by rivalxshowxtime is actually from 2007.
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota has nation's seventh-largest collegiate brain drain

Minnesota is apparently #7 in a Washington Post blogger’s list of states suffering the largest collegiate “brain drain.” At a time when 75 percent of U.S. students study in their home state, Minnesota experienced a net loss 4,401 high-school grads to colleges in other states, according to the post, which relied on data from the…
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