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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.

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The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

The price that students and faculty pay for flipping a classroom

For all the talk of the benefits of flipped classrooms, I realized one drawback — if you want to call it that — during a recent interview with a St. Mary’s University of Minnesota student and professor: They’re a heck of a lot of work. In flipped classrooms, the timing of the lecture is turned…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

Why the UMN needs to keep its hands off the campus lecture

In a Minnesota Daily story on flipped classrooms, University of Minnesota  chemistry freshman Jessica Wyatt says she likes the prof-at-the-podium model just fine, thank you very much: “Flipped classrooms at the [University] are really obnoxious, because you don’t get the lecture-style learning that you’re looking forward to when you go to college.” So take that,…
by Alex Friedrich

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What issues UMN regent Laura Brod still has with the Dream Act

What issues UMN regent Laura Brod still has with the Dream Act

At the last University of Minnesota (UMN) Board of Regents meeting, I tweeted the concerns that regent Laura Brod expressed with the U’s move to give in-state tuition rates to unauthorized immigrant students who live in Minnesota. The state Legislature had set that tuition change in motion this spring when it passed the so-called “Minnesota…
by Alex Friedrich

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‘Robust’ cells draw bone marrow group to campus

‘Robust’ cells draw bone marrow group to campus

National account executive Nadya Dutchin of Be the Match tells MPR’s Lorna Benson why the bone marrow donor recruitment organization is targeting college students as potential contributors: “The cells that are coming from younger people are just much more robust. And they’re able to do a better job in the patient.” The Minneapolis nonprofit is…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pepper spray, campaign contributions and Canada’s green campuses

For-profit colleges giving big to helpful House members House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the industry preserve its access to federal student loans. (USA Today) Rebooting online education The disappointing results from San Jose State’s experiment with…
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What some Minnesota university students say about the Senate interest-rate deal

What some Minnesota university students say about the Senate interest-rate deal

It’s about time we got a little student perspective on the Senate’s deal over Stafford loan interest rates, which could come to a vote as early as today. I just got this announcement from the Minnesota State University Student Association, a group representing students at Minnesota’s four-year state-run campuses. They don’t like the proposed legislation,…
by Alex Friedrich

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You Should Meet: Wendy DeGeest

You Should Meet: Wendy DeGeest

Wendy DeGeest once planned a life as an elementary school teacher.  Then she found the kids who really needed her and everything became clear. It was the 1980s and Pine City, Minn., needed a special education teacher. Growing up in a family that struggled with mental illness, DeGeest knew something about the wayward ways of…
by Bob Collins

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What’s happening to the Zipcars at the University of Minnesota?

What’s happening to the Zipcars at the University of Minnesota?

Those rent-by-the-hour Zipcars around the University of Minnesota will be going away,  soon to replaced by Hourcars, the Star Tribune reports. They’ve been around for six years, but the new car-sharing company apparently impressed U officials with better insurance and a simple pricing structure. Hourcar’s two-year contract starts Aug. 1, and students and staff with…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Lobbying, reading emails, and a decline in language studies

The Universities Are Major Lobbyists Now The incentive systems favor more university spending rather than cost reduction. (Minding the Campus) Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. (The New York…
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