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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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Who is behind Save SCSU?

After I posted the piece, “Why St. Cloud students are irate,” St. Cloud State University administrator Loren J. Boone called me on an assumption I’d made, asking something to the effect of: Who says the site is the work of students? Good point. The site lists students first in its statement: We are students, faculty,…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Urine, dogs and cheating

Dogs Helping College Students Fight Exam Stress Tufts University near Boston is using playful, therapeutic Australian Shepherds as a way to ease stressful students who are preparing for final exams and may be entering a tough job market. (universitybusiness.com) David Callahan: Why Honor Codes Reduce Student Cheating Rampant student cheating has become so familiar that…
by Alex Friedrich

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Schools to reopen on Wednesday in Mpls, St. Paul

Schools to reopen on Wednesday in Mpls, St. Paul

The St. Paul and Minneapolis school districts will be back in session Wednesday. Both districts took Monday and Tuesday off in the aftermath of the Twin Cities' fifth-largest snowstorm ever.
by Tom Weber

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Why St. Cloud loses students

No, this isn’t a riff on the students-irate-over-budget-cuts-post. The St. Cloud Times reports on a recent survey by some St. Cloud State University students and city economic development officials on why many students don’t stay in town after graduation — and what would keep them around: The survey found that about 50 percent don’t plan…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why some St. Cloud State folks are irate

MPR’s Paul Tosto handed me this flier today. Looks like students have someone has a few things to say about St. Cloud State’s budget cuts and reorganization. They’ve got a Facebook page, where you can also find the other side to the green sheet above. The main message: We are students, faculty, staff, and citizens…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Elgin, Illinois has over the U of Minnesota

What Elgin, Illinois has over the U of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview will be the setting for the fall 2011 action thriller, Contagion, about doctors fighting a global virus. But the movie won’t be filmed there, the Minnesota Daily reports. Apparently, the movie makers chose Fairview because it’s a well-known metro hospital name, but decided to film the movie in…
by Alex Friedrich

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How not to pad your extracurricular resume

In light of today’s Midmorning conversation on college applications, here’s a New York Times blog piece on lightening the load of extracurricular activities. It’s geared toard college students, but I think the same principle may hold for high-schoolers. Sandhya Simhan counsels overachievers how not to overdo the extracurriculars: The second rule of being successful is…
by Alex Friedrich

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The financial case for early decision

Well this contradicts much of what I’ve read. Robert Massa, vice president for communication at Lafayette College, writes in The New York Times that early decision is misunderstood — and actually a good idea for those needing a lot of financial aid: Here’s what colleges typically don’t make clear: Although early decision is binding, no…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: Finding the Xmas spirit at Concordia University

Video: Finding the Xmas spirit at Concordia University

I guess I have an answer, thanks to Briana at Concordia University, St. Paul. (For you Christmas nuts, the Yuletide part comes in around the 1:50 mark. And yes, I type like Comet the Bear.)
by Alex Friedrich

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