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Education News

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.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Notes in the Margins: Suicides, payment plans and B-school apathy

Thousands protest at Cal State At all 23 campuses, students and faculty denounce cuts to higher education. (Los Angeles Times) Syracuse prof: Harvard Admits Record Number of Black Students: But What About the Faculty? Even though the presence of black students is very important to a campus, the reality is that admitting students of color…
by Alex Friedrich

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Teach for America founder aims high for school reform

Teach for America founder aims high for school reform

For 20 years, Teach for America has trained college graduates to teach in low-income communities across the country. Teach for America's founder discusses the program's impact in a new book.

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Main differences between House, Senate higher-ed bills

Here’s the second summary, which is more comprehensive than the fiscal summary. Again, this came from the legislative analysts.
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Document: Summary of fiscal differences in higher-ed bills

Got back from the conference committee that is consolidating the House and Senate bills on higher education. Analysts there handed out several summaries of the highlighted differences between the bills. This is the summary of the main fiscal differences. Caution, though: None of the summaries seems to be comprehensive, so you may have to look…
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Pioneer Press: End to WI's reciprocity subsidy makes sense

The Pioneer Press explains why it agrees with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to end the $3,000-per-student annual subsidy that allows Wisconsin students to study at more expensive Minnesota colleges under the states’ reciprocity agreement: The Minnesota Daily, the university’s student newspaper, described Walker’s plan as seeking “to end the state’s 43-year-old tuition reciprocity agreement.”…
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Winona State may drop Zipcar program

Winona State may drop Zipcar program

akseabird via Flickr Maybe not for much longer Winona State University may be dropping its Zipcar car rental program because not enough people have been using it, Winona 360 reports. The program seems to be working at the University of Minnesota, the article states, but Winona officials seem puzzled about the lack of ridership considering…
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Off to the Capitol: Higher-ed conference committee

Off to the Capitol: Higher-ed conference committee

Committee members from the Minnesota House and Senate will be meeting today to start ironing out differences between the House and Senate bills on higher education. Here’s a side-by-side layout of the bills. (Just the text — no analysis.)
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Crookston fire reportedly kills half a dozen animals

Caught this on MPR’s Minnesota Today site: A fire broke out early Wednesday afternoon in the sheep facility on the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus. The smoke was apparently too much for some of the lambs and possibly other sheep, too, as bystanders reported that some animals perished. Short article, but you can read it…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: What a singer will do to get into college

Video: What a singer will do to get into college

Wait-listed at Harvard, Grace Oberhofer of Tacoma sings her plea to the admissions staff. An excerpt: Harvard you mean the world to me On John Harvard’s statue I’d never pee Harvard I utter my primal scream Let me in to your community I wonder whether admissions folks see this sort of thing as a smart…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Greece, Oxford and Jerry Falwell Jr.

Falwell’s Liberty University blocks campus access to newspaper Web site For at least one day last week, Liberty University administrators blocked campus access to the Web site of Lynchburg’s News & Advocate. According to reports, the site was blocked after the newspaper ran a story about the amount of federal student aid the school receives. (The…
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