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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.

Who's qualified to do counseling work?

MPR’s Tim Post has a piece today on the reduction of counselors at Minnesota’s community colleges and universities — even as the number of cases is increasing. Anoka Technical College counselor Kevin Lindstrom brings up an interesting point when he tells Post what’s wrong with spreading mental-health counseling duties throughout the staff of a college:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Bruininks: U of Minnesota is tougher, but reaching out more than before

Right after his appeals to the legislature to spare the University of Minnesota during budget talks, President Robert Bruininks writes an opinion piece in the Grand Forks Herald about the U’s academic progress and increased enrollment, saying he never could have made it there as a student today: Over the course of the past decade,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: COPS comes to campus with Campus PD

Video: COPS comes to campus with Campus PD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKosRg0PXfk&feature=related Can’t get enough of those news reports of the latest campus crime or drunken college student  behavior? Check out Campus PD, the collegiate version of the reality show Cops. It’s a little over a year old — its third season was scheduled to start this month — and the Web site bills it like…
by Alex Friedrich

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Concordia College presses on with presidential search

Kelsy Johnson of The Concordian student paper reports on the status of the presidential search at Concordia College in Moorhead, which has drawn about 70 nominations: The nominees come from diverse occupations and backgrounds, but their religious affiliation is the same. Whoever wins the approval of the Board of Regents will be a member of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Millennials, rankings and state funding

The Flaw of Overall Rankings Many college administrators are uncomfortable with rankings of colleges and universities, such as those found in U.S. News & World Report. Perhaps they don’t like the idea of measuring the quality of an institution of higher learning, or they don’t like the way the measurements are done. But from a psychological…
by Alex Friedrich

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Is higher education losing its meaning?

Is higher education losing its meaning?

A new book on higher education shows more than a third of college students showed no significant improvements in learning over four years of schooling, while 45 percent showed little statistical improvement in performance by their sophomore year. Are easy course loads and active social lives degrading higher education?

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How community-college students get their textbooks

How community-college students get their textbooks

Earlier this month I posted the results of a survey of how Minnesota State University students get their textbooks — new, used, rented, online, etc. Here’s the companion survey, which covers students at Minnesota state community and technical colleges. As with the last one, this was not a scientific survey, especially considering the small sample…
by Alex Friedrich

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Is the job security of Moorhead Corrick Center faculty less certain?

Is the job security of Moorhead Corrick Center faculty less certain?

When I spoke last week to Denise Gorsline, dean of Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s University College about the closure of the Corrick Center for at-risk students, she said the university didn’t expect to save any money through the closure, since faculty and staff would be reassigned. But comments by Corrick Center interim director Gary…
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Kline, Paulsen visit Minnesota elementary schools

Two Republican members of Congress from Minnesota are visiting elementary schools in their districts on Friday.

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Duncan: Minn. must address achievement gap

Duncan: Minn. must address achievement gap

The nation's highest education official said Friday that Minnesota needs to do more to close its achievement gap between white and minority students.
by Tom Weber and Madeleine Baran

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