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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 Macalester's prez takes issue with the current romanticization of dropouts

“There are few things more condescending and destructive than those who have benefited from an expensive and intensive college education (Mr. Ellsberg is a graduate of Brown University) arguing that others need not bother about such benefits for themselves.” — Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg in a Huffington Post commentary criticizing Michael Ellsberg’s recent New York…
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Notes in the Margins: Regulated tuition, deceptive law schools and a cruise ship

Law schools pressed to tell the truth on job placement, debt The American Bar Association and 200 law schools it accredits are under growing pressure from Congress to quell complaints that colleges are misleading students about job prospects and saddling graduates with loans they can’t afford to repay. (USA Today) Death on Notre Dame lift spurs schools to…
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What MN students want from the federal consumer bureau

What MN students want from the federal consumer bureau

Leaders of the Minnesota State College Student Association and Minnesota State University Student Association piggybacked on yesterday’s press conference at the U on the new federal financial aid tool. They told me they wanted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (which held the press conference) to crack down on what they see as abuses in private…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why students need standardized financial-aid-package letters

Why students need standardized financial-aid-package letters

Raj Date of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told an audience at the University of Minnesota yesterday why colleges need a comprehensive, standardized format for financial-aid-package letters: Once challenge that students face is comparing financial aid information from different schools. … It’s important to be able make side-by-side comparisons. But when prospective students open their…
by Alex Friedrich

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What the feds' model financial aid package letter would look like

This is just a prototype, announced yesterday by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, of the preferred format for college financial-aid-package letters. The idea behind the “Know Before You Owe” project is to make them standardized and easy to read so that students can compare various colleges’ offerings side by side. It’s not the final…
by Alex Friedrich

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How to ground yourself in this week's big higher-ed story

If you’re following the recent student loan news coming out of Washington this week, I suggest you check out MPR’s The Big Story Blog, which concentrates on gathering all kinds of articles and topics on one timely topic a day. Today it’s student debt and college costs. It’s full of story links, articles and graphics,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Photo: Coyote found next to MSU-Moorhead residence hall

Photo: Coyote found next to MSU-Moorhead residence hall

Well that’s a sight. Someone found this coyote camped out next to MSU-Moorhead’s Ballard Hall dormitory earlier this week. The Advocate student paper says the animal may have been sick. It was captured and released north of the city. Read the full story here.
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Kindles not catching on among Tommies

Kindles not catching on among Tommies

I posted just yesterday about students’ preference for printed textbooks over digital ones, and now University of St. Thomas circulation desk worker Nathan Wunrow tells TommieMedia that its collection of Kindle readers is “rarely” checked out: “It has its highs and lows maybe in the summer and J-term it’s better, but right now I don’t know…
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