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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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MCTC still eyeing remodeling plans despite cash crunch

MCTC still eyeing remodeling plans despite cash crunch

Even though funding is shaky, Minneapolis Community & Technical College is searching for a construction manager to oversee a proposed $9.75 million remodeling of five floors of its 31-year-old  “T Building” (Technical Building) downtown, Finance & Commerce reports. The project would upgrade instructional space for workforce programs. The paper gives more detail: More specifically, the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minn. Ed. Dept. to release test scores

A new round of test scores will soon be released by the Minnesota Department of Education, which will show how many students are meeting the state's high school graduation requirements.

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How 3 MN execs see the state of vo-tech education

How 3 MN execs see the state of vo-tech education

I’ve been covering efforts by Bill Symonds of Harvard to boost Minnesota’s vocational-technical education program and give high-school grads a practical alternative to a four-year degree. He has studied the issue and produced a report that called for, among other things, a greater role for businesses. Last week, he gathered three businessmen and two education…
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What one senator doesn't like about a for-profit TV ad

What one senator doesn't like about a for-profit TV ad

http://youtu.be/OISn3TXFxlI Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a critic of many for-profit colleges, seems to have a problem with the TV commercial above, The Hill reports: “The ad that just really troubles me shows a lovely young woman who says you can go to college in your pajamas. You don’t even have to get out of bed…
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Why that college-major salary study doesn't tell all

Time magazine tells humanities supporters not to be too pessimistic about the Georgetown study of highest-earning majors: Before switching majors or pushing your child into petroleum engineering (the highest-earning major, with a median salary of $120K), however, make note of one flaw in the Georgetown study. The median salaries in the report do not factor…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Discounting, counseling and big-money majors

Mental Health Screenings At Colleges Go High-Tech To help deal with the high demand for counseling, more campus centers are using computerized questionnaires, some that generate color-coded charts, to help them flag a serious problem more quickly than traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations. Though they stress that these evaluations are not a replacement for in-depth questioning or counseling,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why it's hard for MN industry to find qualified workers

Dan Meyer, president of International Precision Machining in Waite Park, told a gathering of college-, state and business officials about the St. Cloud area’s continuous problem of finding qualified young workers for its industry — and one possible cause: “One of the challenges we see in precision manufacturing as time has gone on, is that…
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The changes that M State will go through

“We’re a college here in Moorhead that has gone through transition and has learned to adapt and take on new challenges.” — John Centko, dean of academic affairs for the Moorhead campus of Minnesota State Community and Technical College, on how life will be at “M-State” in the coming months of change. President Ann Valentine…
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Concordia's Kernel Cobb: Top 10 strangest mascots

Concordia's Kernel Cobb: Top 10 strangest mascots

Cobbers take note: Forget athletic rankings. Your BMOC been rated one of Her Campus’ Top 10 Strangest College Mascots, according to The Huffington Post. Here’s what the site has to say about Kernel Cobb at Concordia College in Moorhead: Concordia College gives several different explanations for a cobber; in Yiddish, a cobber is a friend.…
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Mac prez: Why Dickens is a great preparation for life

Mac prez: Why Dickens is a great preparation for life

ickna via Flickr “Are there no prisons for dropouts? Are there no workhouses?” Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg, a former scholar of Victorian literature, explains in The Huffington Post why everything he needs to know about current problems he has already read in Charles Dickens’ works. Here’s just one: Our ongoing, systematic disinvestment in the…
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