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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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Notes in the Margins: Transfers, co-signers and aptitude testing

How much are college students learning? This failure to examine systematically what is, after all, the core mission of colleges is a big problem for U.S. higher education. We’re awash in efforts to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of our colleges. But without a better base of comparative evidence, we won’t really know how these reforms Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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CEO: The U needs to enforce a rigorous education

CEO Howard Root of Vascular Solutions writes in the Star Tribune how disappointed he was in many of the transcripts submitted by recent University of Minnesota graduates applying to his company’s MedDevice Associate program. Too many, Root writes, had courses that appeared to him to be easy A’s. And the “lack of substantive learning” among Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Selfies, security rankings, and the worst higher-ed trends

The Worst Trends in Higher Education  The real threat to higher education today is ideological: the expectation that universities will become instruments of society’s will, legislators’ will, governors’ will, that they will be required to produce specific quantifiable results, particularly economic, and to cease researching and teaching certain subjects that do not fit the utilitarian model. Read more →
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Student drowned in school pool during 'king of the hill' game

Student drowned in school pool during 'king of the hill' game

A police investigation into the late February drowning death of a St. Louis Park Middle School 7th grader found classmates were roughhousing in the pool before he sank to the bottom, and the teacher supervising was on his iPad.

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Notes in the Margins: Diversity, sexual assault and NYU’s apartment scandal

The real meaning of diversity (beyond the Benetton ads) My personal background led me to question even the most basic assumptions, affording me the opportunity to examine history through a unique lens. And that is power of diversity — not that you are more colorful, but that you look at things differently, that you can push Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Lazy profs, fossil-fuel stocks and campus warnings

Virginia Tech pays fine for failure to warn campus during 2007 mass shooting Virginia Tech has paid $32,500 to satisfy federal fines lodged by the U.S. Department of Education, which charged that the university did not adequately warn its campus community at the beginning of a 2007 rampage that became one of the deadliest mass Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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The new SAT: Less vocabulary, more linear equations

The new SAT: Less vocabulary, more linear equations

The new version of the standardized test for college admissions, set to go into effect in 2016, will do away with obscure vocabulary words and cut multiple-choice answer options from five to four.
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