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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.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Notes in the Margins: Anti-MBAs, applications and death to the SAT

Death to the SAT! Robert Sternberg has argued that college admissions rely too heavily on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, which he says overvalue analytical abilities at the expense of leadership qualities like creativity and wisdom. (fortune.com) Alcohol and caffeine drinks: the next student health problem? Three beers, a can of Red Bull…
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Questions to ask during a campus visit

Questions to ask during a campus visit

When you’re hitting a number of colleges on tour, you need to be prepared. In her U.S. News & World Report blog, The College Solution, Lynn O’Shaughnessy offers a slew of questions to ask. Print these out. Choose the ones most important to you, and let rip when you make your visit. (And don’t forget…
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One thing not to do to an admissions officer

“Ask questions, but don’t friend him on Facebook.” — New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg on The Today Show giving advice on whether high school students should contact college admissions officers such a Grinnell’s Seth Allen, who was also a guest on the show. You can read the Times article and view the Today…
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Why UW-River Falls students don't sing in the shower

Why UW-River Falls students don't sing in the shower

The University of Wisconsin – River Falls has gotten in on an international student movement: University LipDub. The idea, started in Germany, is for college students to make elaborate music videos in which they lip-synch the words. The Wisconsin students have chosen “The Impression That I Get” by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Almost 60 have…
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Tips on e-mailing your professor

Tips on e-mailing your professor

Isn’t e-mailing a professor is just like e-mailing anyone else? Not exactly. Professors’ Guide bloggers Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman have more than a dozen tips for communicating with faculty. Some are common sense, but still bear repeating. Here’s a condensed list: 1. E-mail is forever. Once your professor has it, he or…
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Notes in the Margins: Emmer's cuts, textbooks and Mankatos tunnels

Tuition costs could jump (again) after Emmer higher ed cuts As Governor, Tom Emmer would continue the policies of his predecessor by cutting state support for higher education, thereby pushing tuition costs upward. (tcdailyplanet.net) Police: Drunk UMD football star fought cops at Grandma’s | StarTribune.com An All-America linebacker for the University of Minnesota, Duluth, got…
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Posting will be light

I’m off to a blogging seminar at National Public Radio, so posting has been light today, and will be Thursday. See you Friday, though.
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Update: Threatening letter-writer still studying at MCTC

Yesterday afternoon I wrote about an investigation into a failed nursing student who allegedly wrote a threatening letter to an official at Minneapolis Community & Technical College. Spokeswoman Dawn Skelly called this morning with a short update: I learned this morning that the student who sent the e-mails is currently enrolled in one MCTC online…
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How Minn. students can study up and vote

How Minn. students can study up and vote

On the heels of the gubernatorial video interviews on higher education comes the MnSCU “Friends Action Network” Election Guide. It’s all to help students get out to vote — and decide who to vote for. The site contains: the candidate interview videos — soon to be broken town by topic candidate filings election-related dates help…
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College sex: More of it — or just more talk?

College sex: More of it — or just more talk?

The Duke sex PowerPoint story has just been the highlight of a recent upswing in college sex coverage — and On Campus hasn’t been immune. ABC News’ Nightline looks into whether college sex itself is on the rise — or whether we’re just talking about it more. Check out the video and Huffington Post commentary…
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