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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.

Saint Benedict president resigning in June 2014

Saint Benedict president resigning in June 2014

This came in from the College of Saint Benedict yesterday afternoon while I was away on vacation: College of Saint Benedict President MaryAnn Baenninger Will Step Down in June 2014 MaryAnn Baenninger, 14th president of the College of Saint Benedict (CSB), has informed the CSB Board of Trustees that she will step down from the Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: ROTC, flipped classrooms and open textbooks

More open textbooks to be available The project will ultimately see 40 open textbooks available for students and instructors in highly enrolled first- and second-year subject areas. (Campbell River Mirror) College Board: Tuition growth slowing at public colleges The spike in tuition and fees for public colleges after the 2008 financial crisis has given way to slower Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Study: Girls who get regular exercise do better academically

It's become pretty much a given that children do better academically when they get regular exercise. But a study suggests girls who were more physically active at age 11 did better at school as teenagers. And the most active girls really aced science.

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Minnesota’s teacher of the year decries ‘tyranny of the 1 percent’

Minnesota’s teacher of the year decries ‘tyranny of the 1 percent’

“From where I stand, teachers are the last line of defense against the tyranny of the 1 percent.” That line in a speech during the annual Education Minnesota conference last week put Megan Olivia Hall, the state’s teacher of the year, in the line of fire. Hall, a grade 7-12 science teacher at Open World…
by Bob Collins

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Police: Middle school shooter got gun from home

Police: Middle school shooter got gun from home

Police said a Sparks, Nevada, Middle School student was the lone gunman who injured two young classmates, killed himself and took the life of an 8th-grade math teacher who tried to stop the rampage.

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NDSU staff want tuition cut for same-sex partners

The expanded benefit would add to a short list of benefits the school can provide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and their partners. Offering health care can't be part of it because that's banned by North Dakota state law.

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The whitest historically black college in US

It opened in the late 19th Century as the Bluefield Colored Institute, created to educate the children of black coal miners in segregated West Virginia. Although it still receives the federal funding that comes with its designation as a historically black institution, today Bluefield State College is 90 percent white. The road that separates those realities is as rocky as any story of racial transition in post-WWII America.

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