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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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After tornado damaged school, Wadena students to return

After tornado damaged school, Wadena students to return

Wadena's high school building was badly damaged after a tornado tore through the town this June, but that isn't stopping the Wadena-Deer Creek school district officials from holding classes starting Sept. 7.

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Univ. of Minn. prez to join Humphrey Inst.

After his presidency ends at the end of June 2011, University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks will join the faculty of the U’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, university officials announced today. Bruininks will be affiliated with the Center for Integrative Leadership, an interdisciplinary center run by the Humphrey Institute and the Carlson School of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Mankato engineering students build bridge for Fair

A steel bridge and an easy-to-assemble emergency shelter will decorate the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities booth at the State Fair this year.

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A look at the Univ. of Minnesota's big new building

A look at the Univ. of Minnesota's big new building

Stiff video, but it does the job University of Minnesota Yesterday the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities unveiled its $72.5 million Science Teaching and Student Services building, a 115,000-square-foot construction that replaces the demolished Science Classroom Building on the East Bank. University of Minnesota The new Big Man on Campus I’m not one for showcasing…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: A news roundup

What every instructor needs to say: Act like an adult, and I’ll treat you like one, says one professor from Georgia. Up-and-comers: A list of the colleges that the Unigo college review site thinks we need to know about. More rankings guff: Some education folks have a beef with how Washington Monthly has used data to rank community…
by Alex Friedrich

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Student health plans threatened

  Unknown/Wikimedia Commons Tough to see the future for college health plans NPR reports that the federal health care overhaul might leave colleges unable to offer their traditional student health plans, which cost students less than regular plans but often provide limited benefits. The new requirements, they say, could drive up premiums and price them out of the reach…
by Alex Friedrich

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Recount in; Menahga school property tax levy still fails

A recount in a north-central Minnesota school district did not change the outcome of a recent school referendum.
by Tom Weber

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Should some ditch the pre-med path?

  anolobb via Flickr Mind your Faulkner In today’s Midmorning program, Kerri Miller talked to two physicians about how some medical schools – including Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York — are taking in some students with nontraditional backgrounds. A recent Mt. Sinai study indicated that students with humanities backgrounds perform just as well…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: A news roundup

Buyer, beware: Students have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Denver for-profit college, saying it lied to them to get their money. Law students, beware: They’re criticizing law schools, who they say exaggerate employment prospects as a way to suck students into costly degrees. Low-income students, beware: Student support services are shrinking due to lack of federal funding.…
by Alex Friedrich

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