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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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Student: Seeing the Dalai Lama should be free

Student: Seeing the Dalai Lama should be free

Jan Michael Ihl via Flickr Inner peace comes at a price University of Minnesota student Kevin Reza writing in the Minnesota Daily about his frustration over having to pay up to $250 to see the Dalai Lama speak at the U: “I doubt that I am the only one who thinks it is outrageous to…
by Alex Friedrich

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Black undergrad sorority once again on campus at Univ. of Minn.

“Without [black sororities on campus,] a part of our culture was missing.” — Tahirah Whitelaw on why it’s important that Zeta Phi Beta recently took in seven members at the University of Minnesota — the first time a black undergraduate sorority has been on campus in almost a decade. Read the full Minnesota Daily article…
by Alex Friedrich

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What's new at the U: Forester's Day, Amplatz and Fareed Zakaria

What's new at the U: Forester's Day, Amplatz and Fareed Zakaria

In this edition: We partake in timbersports with the U’s Forestry Club, recognize the opening of the new Amplatz Children’s Hospital and sit in on a lecture by noted author and CNN contributor Fareed Zakaria.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Wikis, defaults and bottled water

Texas college turns football field into farm In Texas, where football fields are hallowed ground, the state’s oldest historically black college is planting the seeds for community change between its fading goalposts. (Associated Press via The Boston Globe) Feds chase more student loan defaults The number of people who aren’t paying back their student loans…
by Alex Friedrich

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Winona educator named Teacher of the Year

Winona educator named Teacher of the Year

Katy Smith, an Early Childhood Family Education teacher at Goodview School in the Winona district has been named the 2011 Teacher of the Year.

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Police monitoring Spring Jam parties near U this weekend

Police monitoring Spring Jam parties near U this weekend

Minneapolis and University of Minnesota police officers will be watching for big parties in the Dinkytown area this weekend as the university holds its annual Spring Jam festival.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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(Comic) What The Golden Sap Ratio is

(Comic) What The Golden Sap Ratio is

One of many episodes of the comic Piled Higher and Deeper on life as a grad student.
by Alex Friedrich

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Court considers release of charter school records

Court considers release of charter school records

A federal judge will consider unsealing records in the two-year legal standoff between the American Civil Liberties Union and a Minnesota charter school accused of promoting religion.

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Student-criticized voter-ID bill passes in the Senate

Student-criticized voter-ID bill passes in the Senate

For those following the state legislation that would require voters to present photo identification at the polls — something students say would unfairly hinder a lot of student voters — the Senate bill has passed on a party line vote of 37 to 26. MPR’s Capitol View reports that Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, said…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why Univ. of Minn. students have to fight for housing

In a piece about how University of Minnesota students will have to compete more and more with non-students for inexpensive housing, the Minnesota Daily offered a statistic I hadn’t seen before: The University of Minnesota may be the second-largest Big Ten school, but it has another distinction as well — the third smallest on-campus housing…
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