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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.

Teach for America struggling for support in Minn.

Teach for America struggling for support in Minn.

Dozens of Teach for America members wrapped up their summer training program this week in the Twin Cities and Friday many will find out if they will be given a classroom to lead in the fall. The Minnesota Board of Teaching must decide to allow the trainees to teach without a license, letting them earn full certification while on the job.
by Tim Post

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Even with funding increase, some school districts to ask voters for more

When the Legislature passed a $485 million increase in school spending over the next two years, DFL lawmakers described the 2013 education bill as one of the best ever. But school districts across Minnesota still plan this fall to ask local taxpayers for more money.
by Tim Pugmire

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Notes in the Margins: Class, arts majors and the white student union

Arts majors jump ahead of tech grads in landing jobs Recent graduates with tech degrees face higher unemployment rates after the Great Recession. (USA Today) A college degree is not the path to the middle class Although the discussion of university attendance rates, when it occurs, is often framed in economic terms, it invokes a concept…
by Alex Friedrich

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Should colleges need to monitor athletes’ class attendance?

Should colleges need to monitor athletes’ class attendance?

Drexel University sport management professor Ellen J. Staurowsky tells MPR’s Daily Circuit  about one expense related to NCAA Division I athletics: “We have an academic support service area on campus. Part of the job of some of the employees in that area is [to act as] what are called class checkers, where they walk  around campus,…
by Alex Friedrich

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A reader counters: Learn from the burn

A reader counters: Learn from the burn

We know the stereotype of helicopter parents — those moms and dads who hover around their student children, making sure they succeed at everything, and removing any potential obstacles in their paths. In my reporting on what high-school students should watch out for when they take college classes, I heard concerns that many high-schoolers may…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why maturity is important when high-school students take college classes

Why maturity is important when high-school students take college classes

A couple of MPR’s Public Insight Network members have written in about their experiences in the Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, which I reported on earlier. They wrote in not as former PSEO students, but as parents and faculty members. Both liked PSEO — which allows high school students to take classes in college —…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Racial clustering, mainstream social science and the easy A

We need more mainstream social science, not less  Alex Golub welcomes some of the criticism levied at the social sciences but finds a lack of evidence supporting many of the sweeping claims. (Impact of Social Sciences) An Unusual Feat in Congress: Student Loan Bill Breezes On Democrats and Republicans eagerly voted to reset and cap student loan interest rates…
by Alex Friedrich

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College-age drinkers to get “amnesty” in emergencies

College-age drinkers to get “amnesty” in emergencies

University of Minnesota student Matt Forstie, chairman of the Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition, tells the Daily Circuit this morning what a change in the law tomorrow will mean for underage drinkers: “It says, if you call 911 in good faith for a medical emergency, you will not receive prosecution for underage drinking if you’re the…
by Alex Friedrich

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