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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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Why does college cost so much?

Why does college cost so much?

The rising cost of college, and the value that college is providing in an uncertain economy, is an issue of growing concern for students, parents and policy makers. Midmorning is joined by two college presidents, and a student leader, for an examination of why higher education has become so costly, and why it matters.

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10 Minn. high schoolers suspended after shouting incident

Ten students at Coon Rapids High School have been suspended after comments made on Facebook escalated into a shouting match in a school stairwell.
by Tom Weber

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New web tool helps prospective students estimate college costs

New web tool helps prospective students estimate college costs

A new online calculator is meant to help prospective college students estimate the cost of college, but the tool is getting mixed reviews.
by Tim Post

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Life as an MCAD student: up at 6:30, to bed at midnight

Life as an MCAD student: up at 6:30, to bed at midnight

Anthony Warnick studies full time while cobbling together several outside jobs into 40-plus hours a week of work just to pay the bills.

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Where you can seriously major in comics

Where you can seriously major in comics

Surrounded by comics on the classroom walls and below a Superman comic on a video monitor, MCAD adjunct faculty member Jim Keefe is critiquing junior Kyle Kruegor’s draft comic project in today’s “Introduction to Comics” class. Students such as Kruegor have already practiced the various stages — plot, penciling, lettering and inking. In this last…
by Alex Friedrich

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How fine-arts students can get experience at MCAD

How fine-arts students can get experience at MCAD

Campus has been buzzing with the 14th annual art sale, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday. It’s apparently the largest campus art sale in the nation, from what officials say, and a big reason why non-artists know about MCAD in the Twin Cities. Today the halls are decked out with 9,000 prints, paintings and…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why you'll grow a thicker skin after going to MCAD

Why you'll grow a thicker skin after going to MCAD

I’m at MCAD adjunct faculty member Ed Charbonneau’s “Painting as Object” class, and standing with him and some students in the hallway. The group is critiquing junior Kayleigh Fichten’s work — a painted canvas with some trash bags attached to it, and which is draped over a fixture instead of hung on the wall. She…
by Alex Friedrich

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The 1 p.m. witching hour at MCAD

The 1 p.m. witching hour at MCAD

So I grabbed some lunch in the MCAD cafeteria — juicy turkey, stuffing and huge mound of mashed potatoes and gravy, a cola and cookie for just over $10 — and noticed that the place was hopping. Truly a buzz. Next thing I know it’s a ghost town: Apparently, liberal-arts classes are in the morning.…
by Alex Friedrich

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