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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: Nerdfighters, Obama and job training factories

Obama Meets With College Leaders on Rising Costs Participants at the roundtable said there was discussion on the role the federal government should play to improve graduation rates. (The New York Times) AFT: Completion means ‘cranking out’ workers Corporate interests are pushing the “completion agenda” and turning  community colleges into “job training factories,” charges a letter from the American…
by Alex Friedrich

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How some St. Olaf students show profs appreciation

Lots of students at liberal arts colleges talk about the quality of the teaching, and the close relationships that classes form with their professors. At St. Olaf, they’ve put it down in writing. On a tour of the campus, I stumbled upon a temporary shrine of sorts to professors in the skyway between Buntrock Commons…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: Debate on whether too many kids go to college

Video: Debate on whether too many kids go to college

Judging from the material I’ve received this morning, today seems to be the big Let’s-Question-the-Value-of-College Day. (And it’ll keep popping up. Always does.) The main event here at MPR is at noon: Midday’s broadcast of the Intelligence Squared structured debate: Too many kids go to college. Guests Henry Bienen: President Emeritus, Northwestern University Charles Murray:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Today's Question: Is the value of college overemphasized?

Today's Question: Is the value of college overemphasized?

Todays Question on MPR– Is the value of college overemphasized? — prompted this comment from GregX, who said American business has generally abandoned its its job of training workers: I don’t know if we have an economic system that is designed to let them do anything else (but go to college). I think that system…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minn. online schools go old school to nab cyber-truants

Minn. online schools go old school to nab cyber-truants

Minnesota's online schools have quietly persuaded county prosecutors to accept an expansive view of the state's outdated truancy law and use the courts to reel hundreds of cybertruants back to class, but both prosecutors and educators agree the makeshift arrangement can't last.

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Why college isn't everyone's path to success

Sean Kershaw and Stacy Becker of the Citizens League in St. Paul write in the Star Tribune that whether students should go to college is a much more complicated issue than society makes it out to be: “Rather than pound, pound, pound into their heads “Go to college, you’ll earn more,” we owe them a more…
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Notes in the Margins: Asians, diversity and female business school deans

Private-College Presidents Getting Higher Salaries The median compensation — including salary and benefits — was $385,909, a 2.2 percent increase from the previous year. The median base salary increased by 2.8 percent to $294,489. (The New York Times) B-School Leadership Through a Different Lens Two women are shattering a glass ceiling for business school deans. (U.S. News…
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Do too many kids go to college?

Do too many kids go to college?

The conventional wisdom about college degrees is being challenged in light of ballooning student debt and the success of young start-up entrepreneurs without college degrees. NPR's Intelligence Squared U.S. invites four debaters to square off on the proposition that too many kids are pushed into attending college.

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Private college presidents' pay up modestly

Private college presidents' pay up modestly

As the economy staggered, private college presidents enjoyed modest raises. The median 2009 compensation for leaders at private schools was $386,000, up 2.2 percent from the year before, according to the latest annual analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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