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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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ACT state stats here

ACT Slowly climbing Here’s a little data behind Tom Weber’s MPR story on the improvement in state scores on the ACT standardized college entrance exam. Below is a chart showing that Minnesota tops the states where the majority of students take the test. (Seven out of 10 students took it in Minnesota.) Other states scored higher —…
by Alex Friedrich

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Video: How to start a (college?) movement

Video: How to start a (college?) movement

I’m usually not one for books or talks on leadership, as I’ve seen too many that are long-winded and filled with platitudes and psycho-babble. But this short video, shown at a North Hennepin Community College employee planning meeting, is fun — and offers a look into the keys to leading a large group. Considering what was said in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Court upholds fine for unlicensed teachers

An appeals court has upheld a $140,000 fine against an Inver Grove Heights charter school for employing unlicensed teachers.

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Minnesota ACT scores continue to climb

Minnesota high school students continued to improve their scores this year on the ACT college entrance exam.
by Tom Weber

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MN's ACT scores are getting better

MPR’s Tom Weber has this piece on improvement in Minnesota’s already fairly high ACT scores. Education Commissioner Alice Seagren told Weber the cause of the increase might be that schools and teachers are doing a better job of getting students into the right courses to make them college-ready. “It’s not just about taking three years…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: A news roundup

Stop pushing: Some for-profit colleges are resisting federal attempts to tighten regulations on their industry. Gaming the system: One Web site lets college students bet on what grades they’ll make. So long, fun summers: College students are turning increasingly to community college summer courses to rack up cheap credits. Why did I study this, again? Sociologists…
by Alex Friedrich

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MSU Moorhead opens its time capsule

MSU Moorhead opens its time capsule

MSU Moorhead Now that’s some history When Minnesota State University – Moorhead staffers publicly opened a time capsule this afternoon, they found material from one of the haziest periods in the university’s history. In a zinc-and-copper box were a slew of well-preserved photos and documents — playbills and music programs, course descriptions and school publications — depicting…
by Alex Friedrich

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Life changes just around the corner for teachers

Life changes just around the corner for teachers

It's mid-August, and with a new school year looming on the horizon, Minnesota Public Radio essayist Peter Smith has a few words of encouragement for the state's school teachers.
by Peter Smith

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Full list of MN's U.S. News and World Report rankings

Full list of MN's U.S. News and World Report rankings

    cursedthing via Flickr The waiting game is over — for this year   I’ve posted other college rankings before, but here’s the granddaddy: U.S. News & World Report’s. The magazine looks at 16 factors among 1,400 accredited four-year schools. As usual, critics say the rankings are arbitrary — and pressure colleges to boost scores…
by Alex Friedrich

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MSU Moorhead stumbles upon 1915 time capsule, opens it today

Wikimedia Commons What’s in that time capsule? At 12:45 p.m. today, officials at MSU Moorhead will open a time capsule that workers ran across while renovating Lommen Hall. They “unexpectedly came across the corner stone for Weld Hall—the two buildings are joined. Within the stone was a time capsule in the form of a large…
by Alex Friedrich

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