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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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Notes in the Margins: Immigration, guns and the Fighting Soux

Berkeley Chancellor’s Comments on Arizona Shooting Draw Criticism The chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley is drawing rebukes from some commentators after he linked the shooting rampage in Tucson this past weekend to the failure of the Dream Act and the passage of Arizona’s immigration law—an unusually political statement from a prominent university…
by Alex Friedrich

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State committee will review these U of Minnesota regents candidates

After this week’s interviews to see who could fill openings on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, the Regent Candidate Advisory Council recommended the following candidates, whose names they’ll send to the Joint Legislative Committee for consideration. RCAC staffer Diane Henry confirmed they are: At-Large: Allen Anderson, Steven Hunter and Robert Kennedy Second District:…
by Alex Friedrich

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Anoka-Hennepin schools approved for Q Comp

The state's largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, is a step closer to joining the state's alternative system for evaluating and paying teachers, called Q Comp.

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Where Tommies might build controversial tennis courts

Where Tommies might build controversial tennis courts

In October, I pointed out a Pioneer Press piece about how the University of St. Thomas had angered some neighbors by proposing tennis courts in a park-like area behind Brady Educational Center. Looks like administrators have gone back to review other possible spots — 13 in all — and have chosen two, including the spot…
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Grad rates influence college choice

Amid the news of Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s concern about its low graduation rates and the closure of Corrick Center for at-risk students, I stumbled across this Chronicle of Higher Education piece on how some students choose colleges based partly on their grad rates: Providing graduation rates, the researchers found, increased the likelihood (by…
by Alex Friedrich

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MSU Moorhead official: At-risk students may go to community college instead

After posting on the closing of MSU Moorhead’s Corrick Center for at-risk students, I talked to university spokesman Doug Hamilton. He told me the job of handling at-risk students may go to the nearby community college, which he said can give the students the support they need. “It’s a more efficient use of resources,” he…
by Alex Friedrich

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MSU Moorhead closes center for at-risk students

In what appears to be an abrupt change of course — one that has some students crying foul — Minnesota State University Moorhead has announced it’s closing Corrick Center, its facility for at-risk students. Yesterday’s announcement comes just a month after administrators said they were moving the center to another part of campus as part…
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Why all that feel-good admissions stuff you hear is B.S.

The right fit? Home away from home? Kindred spirits? Hogwash! In the vein of the last less-than-uplifting admissions post, Tom Bartlett of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a depressing report on how investment banks and other firms recruit only from certain Ivy League schools — sorry, Brown and MIT — and look at…
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Tina Fey in movie about college admissions

Tina Fey in movie about college admissions

Oh, to stare into the world of an admissions officer. What would we find? Are they as uptight and quietly elitist as the one portrayed in Risky Business? We may get another look. The Hollywood Web site TheWrap.com reports that comedy star Tina Fey will be starring in a movie about “an admissions officer at…
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Gay coach sues University of Minnesota

Early last month, the Minnesota Daily reported that a former golf coach at the University of Minnesota was preparing to sue the U, alleging it had discriminated against her for being gay. Looks like she is following through. From the Associated Press: A former associate women’s golf coach alleges the University of Minnesota stripped her…
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