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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.

Notes in the Margins: Sororities, sex columns and European universities

University of Alabama Moves to End Segregated Sorority System After more than a century of discrimination – and a week of bad publicity – the school will allow black women to join white sororities. (Time) Amid casual hookup culture, college revives sex column College journalism scholar Daniel Reimold estimates that nearly 10% of the 1,800 American college newspapers Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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St. Paul teachers turn down Q Comp

Union leaders say they fear the Q Comp program, which uses state and local money to fund teacher training and merit pay, could disappear someday, leaving the district with a gap in funding.
by Tim Post

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What conversations are you having about the firing at Totino-Grace?

MPR News is curious the conversations you and your family and friends are having about homosexuality and Catholic schools in the wake of news that a longtime teacher at Totino-Grace High School has been fired. Kristen Ostendorf announced to her colleagues at the Catholic High school in Fridley that she's gay and in a relationship, an apparent violation of the school's employment policy.

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UMN coach Jerry Kill: I’ve talked about my epilepsy enough already

UMN coach Jerry Kill: I’ve talked about my epilepsy enough already

University of Minnesota head football coach Jerry Kill told reporters today he’s not answering questions about his epilepsy. At his weekly noon press conference, he said he appreciated the public’s concern for him over the weekend. He suffered an epileptic seizure during Saturday’s game against Western Illinois. But he said the press conference — his Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Contract for University of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill

For those interested in how University of Minnesota head football coach Jerry Kill stands contractually (and financially) in light of the ruckus over his epilepsy, the agreement is above. U law professor Stephen Befort has told me that a buyout might be more of a disincentive than an ADA lawsuit for the U to get Read more →
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Minneapolis mayoral candidates debate city's education challenges

For the most part, the six candidates agreed on education policies. They all want better standardized tests, but fewer of them. They all think schools should reduce the number of students they suspend. And they all like Minneapolis School Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson's plan to give struggling schools more autonomy.
by Curtis Gilbert

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Notes in the Margins: Salary expectations, Middle Eastern universities, and the college dinosaur

Google’s Boss and a Princeton Professor Agree: College Is a Dinosaur Colleges and universities are indecisive, slow-moving, and vulnerable to losing their best teachers to the Internet. (Bloomberg Businessweek) Middle Eastern academies gauge governance for first time A World Bank study weighs strengths and flaws of universities in wake of Arab Spring. (Times Higher Education) Should Read more →
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How MnSCU chief Rosenstone has reacted to Metro State’s payroll snafu

How MnSCU chief Rosenstone has reacted to Metro State’s payroll snafu

This was forwarded to me. It appears MnSCU Chancellor Steven Rosenstone has called for an audit of Metropolitan State University’s payroll problems. His take so far: This appears to be an isolated problem. Other than the random errors that occasionally arise in processing the payroll for 18,000 faculty and staff across our colleges and universities, Read more →
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