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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.

Minnesota college enrollment rate jumps

Significantly more Minnesotans who graduate high school are continuing on with some form of postsecondary education, according data released by the state Office of Higher Education. In its most recent Minnesota Measures report, 78 percent of the Class of 2011 enrolled in a college program within two years — a big jump from the 68 Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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St. Paul teachers union, school district avert strike

St. Paul teachers had threatened to strike over class sizes, testing and support staff levels. During the nine-month talks, district officials said they agreed with those issues, but that implementing all would be too expensive.
by Tim Post

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Should college football players unionize?

Should college football players unionize?

We discuss the arguments and the implications for the game of football and college athletics if the team can unionize.

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Notes in the Margins: Frats, Googlizing applications, and crowdfunding research

Want to save America? Stop giving to Harvard, now If inequality is a problem, what justifies big tax subsidies for wealthy donors and their super-wealthy schools? (Bloomberg via Star Tribune) The Dark Power of Fraternities A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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USDA tells schools: Don't refuse food to students who owe

Under Secretary of Agriculture Kevin Concannon says in a letter to state school chiefs that schoolchildren should not be subjected to undue embarrassment and stigma when they have outstanding balances in their school lunch accounts.

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Maria Hinojosa on educational equity and the true American spirit

Maria Hinojosa on educational equity and the true American spirit

The host of NPR's "Latino USA" gives the keynote address February 13, 2014 at the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership "Education Equity in Action" conference. Local panelists respond to her address afterward. She said racial equity and educational success will best come if we restore the true American spirit.

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Century opens one of the few LGBTQ student centers on a 2-year campus

Century opens one of the few LGBTQ student centers on a 2-year campus

You may have seen several Minnesota colleges and universities make Campus Pride’s list of four-year campuses most friendly to LGBT students, but Century College in White Bear Lake has made its own mark as a two-year school. Late last month, it opened what it called the state’s first LGBTQ center on a community college campus. Read more →
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Notes in the Margin: Dead Poets, Obama’s ratings and the learning-disabled

Colleges Respond to Growing Ranks of Learning Disabled Some colleges and universities are focusing more attention on getting reluctant learning-disabled students to disclose their conditions before they run into severe problems in the classroom- and bring down those schools’ increasingly important graduation rates. (Washington Monthly) Dead Poets Society Is a Terrible Defense of the Humanities The beloved film’s Read more →
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