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September 2, 2013 1:58 PM

Education Week: Mayme Hostetter on skills of a great teacher

Mayme Hostetter talks about the methods and skills needed for effective teaching, at a Minnesota Meeting "RESET Education" event sponsored by the Minneapolis Foundation and held in June 2013 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

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August 30, 2013 11:45 AM

What are your back-to-school traditions?

The first day of school for most students in Minnesota is the day after Labor Day, Tue. Sept. 3. To mark the occasion in Waterville, Minn. The school district welcomes students back to school by rolling out a green carpet, the school color, for them. The idea is to make them seem like celebrities coming back to school with teachers and administration greeting them all outside the building.

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August 30, 2013 7:45 AM

What flopped at this year’s MCTC student orientation

Beck Kilkenny, an orientation leader this year Minneapolis Community and Technical College — and digital editor at City College News — writes about what didn’t work during MCTC’s orientation: There was a lot of emphasis … about playing icebreaker games to facilitate communication within the group. This did not excite the students ….. Maybe it’s Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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August 30, 2013 6:16 AM

How much of a demand is there for air-conditioned dorms in MN?

Students may still be sweating it out in their hot dorm rooms, but from what I’ve heard from MSU-Moorhead and some private colleges, the short-lived benefits of air conditioning usually aren’t worth the high cost. And it’s students — not taxpayers — who apparently pay the bill. MSU-Moorhead spokesman David Wahlberg said that unlike academic Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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August 30, 2013 4:00 AM

States offered more time to ignore education law

States can request permission to ignore parts of the No Child Left Behind education law through the spring of 2016, the Education Department said Thursday.

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August 30, 2013 3:32 AM

How common are two-year-college dorms in MN and the U.S.?

In January 2011 I posted a mother’s research into which two-year colleges in Minnesota (and elsewhere in the Midwest) that have dormitories. It was an attempt to get college experience for her son that was similar to that of a four-year campus. It sounded like dorms were pretty rare at two-year institutions. But this map Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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August 30, 2013 2:57 AM

How much the U and Mayo are losing because of sequestration

Gary Balas, a professor of aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota, tells MPR’s Brett Neely what effect sequestration-related budget cuts are having on researchers’ work: “You end up spending much more of your time chasing money and less time doing the research.” The U says it’ll lose more than 5 percent of its research Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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August 30, 2013 2:27 AM

Notes in the Margins: Bloat, game amenities and the $30 million football title

Student loan forgiveness plans underused Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, hopes that increased awareness of these plans will encourage more students into pursuing careers as teachers or nurses — just two of the public service jobs facing a huge shortfall in qualified workers in the next decade. (MoneyWatch) Go to game or watch Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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August 29, 2013 4:46 PM

Parents hope school district learns from heat cancellations

Students in about two dozen Minneapolis schools without air conditioning stayed home today after the district cancelled classes due to the stifling heat and humidity.

by Tim Post

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August 29, 2013 11:00 AM

What are Minnesota private colleges doing about the heat?

In light of the heat hitting students at MSU-Moorhead, I asked officials at some other colleges about their situations. Sounds like hot dorm rooms are pretty common. It’s expensive to put air conditioning into old buildings, campus officials say, and the heat doesn’t last long enough to make it worth the cost. Carleton College spokesman Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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