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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.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

How a flipped classroom benefited one St. Mary’s student

How a flipped classroom benefited one St. Mary’s student

A lot has been written about the concept of “flipped” classrooms, in which students watch lectures and do readings before class so they can spend class time applying the material they’ve learned. To me it’s seems like a common-sense approach that provides obvious benefits: better-informed conversations and more efficiency in addressing students’ questions and reinforcing…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Movies, housing and transgender students

Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Fairness Act Gains Endorsement Of More Than 1,000 Professors Warren’s proposal, presented in May, would offer the same interest rate on federal Stafford loans as the one that banks receive from the Federal Reserve. Under her plan, the rate on government-issued student loans would fall from 6.8 percent to 0.75 percent, saving…
by Alex Friedrich

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How a University of Minnesota student set global warming to music

How a University of Minnesota student set global warming to music

This is really cool — but disturbing. University of Minnesota undergraduate student Daniel Crawford has made The New York Times with his unusual portrayal how much the planet has been warming. His “A Song of Our Warming Planet” is an example of “data sonification.” He has converted global temperature figures into musical notes — and…
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Joel Wiggins starts term as Crown College president

Joel Wiggins starts term as Crown College president

This month, Joel Wiggins began his term as president of Crown College, a private Christian college in Saint Bonifacius. The college says that although presidents of private colleges usually rise through academia, Wiggins — a Crown alumnus — is “a longtime business incubator manager, Christian pastor and university instructor.” More: His background includes 13 years…
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The marketing infographics of Concordia University in St. Paul

The marketing infographics of Concordia University in St. Paul

The use of infographics in marketing seems pretty uncommon among Minnesota’s colleges and universities. I recently wrote about how the University of St. Thomas was taking the plunge, and Macalester College has dabbled as well (though that didn’t seem to have as much of a marketing bent.) A spokesman from the University of Minnesota told…
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Notes in the Margins: Amenities, student spending and the best celebrity commencement speeches

College Student Spending Power Flat This Year  After a big jump last year, discretionary spending by college students is expected to remain largely flat this year at $117 billion, per the latest College Explorer report from re:fuel. That remains significantly above discretionary spending power from 2009-2011, though, which stood at roughly $90 billion. (Marketing Charts via e-Strategy Trends) Fancy…
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Why Bethel is being public about its fight with the feds

On Friday, I reported on Bethel University‘s fight with the U.S. Dept. of Education over how the ED has been conducting its test of financial health on U.S. private colleges and universities. The feds say Bethel has failed it, and want it to post a multimillion-dollar letter of credit as a form of insurance. But…
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How Bennies are sharing their memories

How Bennies are sharing their memories

Now that it’s celebrating its centennial, the College of St. Benedict has released a nifty iPhone/iPad app  (Update: and an Android version as well) that helps its alumni share photos of their Bennie reunions: Help us celebrate 100 years of Bennie memories and connections! Snap a picture with a Bennie friend or other important person…
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What do you do when a MOOC student does not meet the prerequisites?

What do you do when a MOOC student does not meet the prerequisites?

I quickly learned one thing from my conversations with University of Minnesota faculty about their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Students don’t follow directions — including when they choose which MOOCs to enroll in. Professor Chris Cramer’s “Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics” MOOC has a list of prerequisites — otherwise known “recommended background”: One year of college-level…
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Notes in the Margins: Roma, mascots and scholarships for the middle class

UCLA, Southwestern law students to write ‘real world’ amicus briefs Two Los Angeles law schools are launching programs designed to give their students real-world legal experience by writing briefs on behalf of nonprofit groups or other causes that professors deem worthy. (Los Angeles Times) For Roma, a Steppingstone to Graduate School A program at the Central European…
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