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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: Guns, tuition and a cultural genome

Scholars Elicit a ‘Cultural Genome’ From 5.2 Million Google-Digitized Books The English language is going through a time of huge growth. Humanity is forgetting its history more rapidly each year. And celebrities are losing their fame faster than in the past. (chronicle.com) Oklahoma State Student Paper to Begin Charging Non-Local Web Readers Starting soon, certain…
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A 'Sputnik' moment for education

A 'Sputnik' moment for education

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the results from the international education test scores (PISA) were "a massive wake-up call" for American educators. Midmorning discusses what kind of reform American schools need, and if there is room for the rote test-driven education that put Shanghai on top and the U.S. far behind.

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Oddest expulsion case ever?

The Kansas City Star reports: A nursing student at Johnson County Community College is stunned to find herself booted out of school just months before graduation. Her offense: Posting on Facebook a photograph of herself posing with a human placenta in class. Ok.
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Why some students prefer college admissions videos

Why some students prefer college admissions videos

Looks like more and more colleges and universities (such as George Mason) are accepting videos in their recruiting process. They’re more work for candidates — and possibly more painful for the admissions committee — but some students prefer them. High school senior David Dorsey of New Jersey tells the Washington Post: “I’m applying to seven…
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Grad school? Majority go into biz, ed

CNN reports on a study of the most popular graduate degrees — and finds they tend to be in two fields: The study found a combined 51 percent of the total number of master’s degrees awarded in 2009 were in either business or education. By contrast, 7.2 percent of master’s degrees were granted in engineering,…
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Job posting for Anoka college realignment

Just in case you’re curious, here’s the job posting for the new president of Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College. If you remember, they’ll be realigning under one president by next fall.
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2 Winona State students suspected of cyber crime

“I don’t know when he would have time to do that. He spends all of his time studying. I hope none of it is true.” — Winona State University chemistry professor Thomas Nalli talking to the Star Tribune about Khoi Van, one of two Winona State foreign students suspected by federal investigators of engaging in…
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How librarians killed the academic library

How librarians killed the academic library

Wow, this sounds familiar. The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article, Death by Irony: How Librarians Killed the Academic Library, reads like many of the articles I’ve read about the demise of the American newspaper: On its deathbed, it could be heard mumbling curses against Google ….. At the same time, the death … is being…
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The graduation rate at MN private colleges

The graduation rate at MN private colleges

Looks like the Minnesota Private College Council is taking a few of the stats that it trumpets and turning them into graphics. The council’s site has a couple more.
by Alex Friedrich

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Mankato campus pastor in midst of huge weight loss

By the fall of 2009, Meyer was down to 550 pounds, but he had to stop three times when he walked a block on campus. — The Free Press of Mankato describing Minnesota State University – Mankato pastor Monte Meyer’s attempts to go from weighing 600 pounds to 250 pounds. He currently weighs 361 pounds…
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