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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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Off to the Capitol

The state conference committee on higher education is meeting at 1 p.m., where University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks is expected to speak. I’ll report in later.
by Alex Friedrich

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Why California prison academy is better than Harvard

Why California prison academy is better than Harvard

In The Wall Street Journal, OpinionJournal.com assistant editor Alyssia Finley writes about how prison guards make even more money, vacation and benefits than your average Harvard grad. And considering it’s admissions time, here’s the kicker: The application process may seem like a piece of cake compared to Harvard’s, but the correctional officer academy is actually…
by Alex Friedrich

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Moorhead students on the dangers of cell-phone indiscretion

Moorhead students on the dangers of cell-phone indiscretion

Three Minnesota State University – Moorhead students have won a $500 prize for making the video (above) on the dangers of sending risque cell-phone photos. Now can they make one about the dangers and distractions of texting in class?
by Alex Friedrich

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How JFK presented himself to Harvard admissions officials

How JFK presented himself to Harvard admissions officials

Here are the stellar insights that John F. Kennedy wrote in his successful application to Harvard, according to documents cited in The Huffington Post: “The reasons that I have for wanting to go to Harvard are several,” he wrote. “I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than…
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Notes in the Margins: Legacies, immigrants and flushed socks

Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads Stepping up his demand to change the nation’s immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he’ll keep working to help students not legally in the U.S. to become American citizens. (Associated Press via The Washington Post) Debating Legacy Admissions…
by Alex Friedrich

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How can schools prevent gun violence?

How can schools prevent gun violence?

School violence prevention has gained renewed attention following incidents at Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring and several other cases nationwide. What are the underlying causes of school violence and how can we keep schools safe?

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Corporations to give Minneapolis Public Schools $13.8 million

Corporations to give Minneapolis Public Schools $13.8 million

Target, Cargill, Medtronic and General Mills have pledged to spend the money over the next three years to fund academic and personnel development programs.
by Brandt Williams

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6 observations on this year's college application process

With today being the postmark deadline for students to inform colleges they’re attending, what have Minnesota admissions officials and counselors seen so far in the application process? Huge increases in the number of applications, from what I’ve heard — some that rival the 30-50 percent increases we’re seeing in the Ivy League. As Hamline University…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why some students aren't notifying colleges today

Why some students aren't notifying colleges today

Today is National Candidate Reply Date, when when students have to notify the colleges they want to attend. (It’s normally May 1, but I’m told the vast majority of colleges have moved this postmark date to May 2 because of the weekend.) But that’s not the case with all students and colleges. Joe Wicklund, admissions…
by Alex Friedrich

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Are more students applying to only 1-2 colleges this year?

Minnetonka High School college counselor Phil Trout, who’s president of the Minnesota Association for College Admission Counseling, told me this morning that the economy might have prompted a growing number of students to abandon the mass-application process this year: “I want to run this statistic. We’ve got some students who applied to fewer colleges this…
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