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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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U-Minn., Augsburg, Carleton, St. Olaf are top Fulbright producers

Here’s a list of the top U.S. producers of Fulbright students for 2010-11. And here’s how we did here in Minnesota: Research institutions University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (12 awards/54 applicants) Masters institutions Augsburg College (4/7) Bachelors institutions Carleton College (11/24) St. Olaf College (5/23)
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One student's grumbling on textbooks

Heard this during a seminar on textbooks at Friday’s Minnesota state student leadership conference in Bloomington: In high school, you have 30 students in a class, and the school has 30 books. If you lose a book, you pay full price (to the school). Why can’t we do it that way in college? Seems reasonable…
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Video: What college students don't know about government

It’s almost too easy to make videos like these — man-on-the-street interviews that show how little college students know about government. (Especially when the interviewer draws from the same small number of uninformed students for his show.) Still, they’re always worth a laugh — or a grimace — and the use of quiz-show buzzers give…
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Notes in the Margins: Drunkorexia, France and Mac's wind turbine

Phone app flaunts campus deals A student-run advertising agency will be launching a beta phone application next week featuring deals and coupons for Dinkytown, Stadium Village and West Bank businesses. (mndaily.com) Mac’s wind turbine generates more hype than energy It’s a “demonstration turbine,” a “piece of lab equipment,” a “symbol.” But there’s one thing Macalester’s…
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Why community colleges are a secret

Ryan Lubke, a 24-year-old computer support technology student at Minnesota West Community & Technical College in Granite Falls, told Minnesota college student leaders Friday why two-year colleges often don’t appear on the radar of high school students: “Unless you live in one of the towns, you never hear about them. How often do you see…
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How Tommies get around local drinking regs

“The primary response of many students is to get fake IDs and drink at bars instead. … This promotes even larger issues such as drinking and driving since there are no bars within a good walking distance.” — University of St. Thomas senior Felisha Willaert on how students are reacting to the policing of underage…
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Phone app shortens Winona State bus waits

Phone app shortens Winona State bus waits

Winona360 reports that Winona State University is working on a mobile-phone application that enables students to see where in town their buses are — a move that should cut down the amount of time they stand at bus stops. It’ll be of most use to off-campus students and those trying to get from one campus…
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Should aspiring entrepreneurs get MBAs?

If there’s one corner of the world where the What-is-Education-For debate is most germane, it could be this one. In the world of entrepreneurs, everything needs to pull its own weight. No time for navel-gazing. In two separate articles, entrepreneur Chad Troutwine lists in the Wall Street Journal the reasons for and reasons against getting…
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How Tommie tennis has angered its neighbors

This is more of a civic issue than an educational one, but the Pioneer Press’ Fred Melo has the story of how the University of St. Thomas has infuriated some of its neighbors with its preliminary plans to build fenced-in tennis courts on a tree-filled lot that it owns at Goodrich Avenue and Mississippi River…
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Notes in the Margins: Dorm drug labs, athletic fees and the new student loan system

A Father’s Acceptance: His Son Won’t Be Following His Ivy Footsteps An author who has long urged parents to see their children as having their own unique gifts, and not as mirror images of themselves, finally learns to practice at home what he preaches on the road. (thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com) Police say drug lab was operating in…
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