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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.

MCTC instructor appeals reprimand over race discussion

MCTC instructor appeals reprimand over race discussion

A couple of updates to the structural racism debate at Minneapolis Community and Technical College: First, instructor Shannon Gibney has filed an appeal of the administrative reprimand she received over how she handled a heated discussion with three white male students. You may recall that a top campus official wrote Gibney that she’d created a Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Did an MCTC instructor present the problem of structural racism correctly?

Did an MCTC instructor present the problem of structural racism correctly?

Daniel Luzer of Washington Monthly writes that although he has sympathy for Shannon Gibney, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College instructor reprimanded for how she handled a class discussion on structural racism, there’s a point to consider: Structural racism is a very difficult concept to teach to students, and professors have to be very careful about Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Wealth, preferred pronouns and open-source textbooks

Measuring the Wealth Effect in Education John Jerrim studied access to high-status universities in Britain, the United States and Australia. At elite private American universities, for example, students are six times as likely to come from a professional as a poor or working class background. (The New York Times) The Bill That Could Save College Students $1,200 a Year Two Read more →
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Critical thinking hallmark of Common Core class

Critical thinking hallmark of Common Core class

This is the first of three stories exploring how teachers are incorporating Common Core State Standards in the classroom. Minnesota has adopted only the English standards.

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Struggling students find home at Rochester school

Struggling students find home at Rochester school

The Rochester school's goal is to try to a create a space for students to get well and to heal. Through some process made up of patience and acceptance, problem-solving, counseling and intervention, students are expected to find balance between dealing with their problems and being a student.

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MCTC instructor appeals reprimand over handling of race in the classroom

"I wish that the administration had gotten the chief diversity officer, the students [and] the faculty member in the same room so they could have talked about the situation rather than making it into a legalistic moment -- make it into a learning moment," faculty union president Barbara Hager said.
by Alex Friedrich

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Adult English language learners struggle against program's policy

Adult English language learners struggle against program's policy

Statewide, about 27,000 were enrolled in adult English language programs last year. Critics of a policy that requires learners to progress a level every 30 months say it leaves participants with no place to go to get the English skills they need. Every year, as many as a half-dozen students at the Ronald M. Hubbs Center in St. Paul are asked to leave the program.
by Emma Nelson

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MSU-Moorhead to cut programs — but says Slate criticism is off

MSU-Moorhead to cut programs — but says Slate criticism is off

Minnesota State University – Moorhead officials are taking issue with a Slate article that says the campus, as well as University of the District of Columbia, are gutting academics to solve budget problems: Soon these regional public universities may have no departments of English, physics, or history—nor a host of other programs often associated with Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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