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Education News

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.

College: A right or a privilege?

MPR’s Michael Caputo asks on Insight Now whether college is something for everyone or just a select few. The feds are pushing for more college graduates. But some question the money spent on those who just end up dropping out — and raise the question of whether we’re pushing too many unmotivated, unprepared students toward…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why Macalester student says international prof plagiarized him

I’ve heard of students ripping off the work of professors, professors plagiarizing other professors, even profs muscling in on the work of the grad students under them. This is the first time I’ve heard of a professor lifting the work of an undergrad. The Mac Weekly student newspaper has reported the case of Macalester College’s…
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How to find an independent college counselor

How to find an independent college counselor

I first started to resent my college counselor in high school when he acted more interested in getting the local athletes scholarships than he did in helping me find a decent college. My parents had never gone to college, so I slogged through alone. The idea of hiring an independent counselor was something I’d never…
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Notes in the Margins: Indian students, scholarships for the rich and useless remedial classes

Location-Based Apps Add Virtual Dimension to Campus Maps Colleges integrate applications such as Foursquare into student life to encourage students to engage with their surroundings. (chronicle.com) Affluent Indians Sending More Students Abroad Education experts say this increasing affluence, and a shortage of top-quality colleges and universities in India, is likely to send more students abroad.…
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Why students protested at St. Thomas' law school

Why students protested at St. Thomas' law school

TommieMedia reports how demonstrators hit St. Thomas School of Law yesterday to criticize two participants in a panel discussion — St. Thomas law professor Robert Delahunty, and University of California-Berkeley law professor John Yoo — whose legal memos to the Bush Administration they say condoned torture and facilitated its use during the War on Terror.…
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What's your idea to improve teaching?

What's your idea to improve teaching?

Midday welcomes ideas from teachers, parents and students on the best way for teachers to teach, so students can learn. ARW/MPR education reporters share what they've learned.
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Poll: How safe are fraternity parties?

MPR reporter Tim Post and I have covered the three recent sexual assault cases at the University of Minnesota fairly heavily, and now I’d like to hear from you: Just how safe do you –or people you know — feel at fraternity parties? Is the issue being overblown — or underreported? Please click the link…
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U-Minnesota rally part of national action day

U-Minnesota rally part of national action day

Here’s MPR reporting intern Anissa Stocks’ update on the “Chop from the Top” rally yesterday at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Mall. About 100 people gathered to urge university officials to “fund education, not administration.” The rally coincided with similar events across the country as part of National Day of Action to Defend Public Education,…
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Think-tanker: Tenure needed for what?

Most people claiming that tenure protects their radical ideas from censure by malevolent outside forces appear to be flattering themselves with the conceit that anybody knows what their ideas are in the first place. — Kevin Carey, policy director for Education Sector, an independent think tank in Washington, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education.…
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Audio: Shaping the American university

Audio: Shaping the American university

In case you weren’t able to make it Sept. 30, the U yesterday released its audio to its “Great Conversation” between U of M President Robert Bruininks, Jonathan Cole, and Robert Berdahl. Here’s part of the intro the U provided: University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks will discuss the future of American higher education —…
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