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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: Law schools, STEM and PR for biz schools

What Is College For? Our support for higher education makes sense only if we regard intellectual culture as essential to our society.  Otherwise, we could provide job-training and basic social and moral formation for young adults far more efficiently and cheaply, through, say, a combination of professional and trade schools, and public service programs.  (The New…
by Alex Friedrich

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Northrop Auditorium undergoing three-year, $84 million renovation

Northrop Auditorium undergoing three-year, $84 million renovation

Built in the late 1920's, the University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium's renovation will combine student study space, academic offices, and a smaller auditorium with better acoustics than the one it's replacing.
by Tim Post

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Virtual schools booming as states mull warnings

More schoolchildren than ever are taking their classes online, using technology to avoid long commutes to school, add courses they wouldn't otherwise be able to take — and save their school districts money.

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This Old University of Minnesota House: The Northrop edition

This Old University of Minnesota House: The Northrop edition

University of Minnesota officials are in the mood for open houses recently.  A few weeks ago they invited the media to tour Eastcliff, the official residence of U of M president Eric Kaler. On Friday the doors swung open for the media again, this time at Northrop Auditorium, which is in the middle of an…
by Tim Post

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A comparison showing how much harder it is to pay for college now

A comparison showing how much harder it is to pay for college now

In an essay on the Occupy Wall Street movement, Minnesota state Senator John Marty (DFL-Roseville) writes about the cost of college today vs. the cost in 1968: Hamline University professor David Davies provides an illustration of how much harder it is to get by today: Davies pointed out that in 1968, a University of Minnesota…
by Alex Friedrich

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At what point is it fair to abandon the hiring of a faculty candidate?

At what point is it fair to abandon the hiring of a faculty candidate?

After posting about the hiring flap between Hamline University and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, I wanted to get some views on a few elements. I asked several hundred college faculty and administrators in MPR’s Public Insight Network what they thought about college faculty hiring practices and the role that job candidates’ politics (or…
by Alex Friedrich

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Minnesota among 9 states to win 'Race to the Top' education grant

Minnesota among 9 states to win 'Race to the Top' education grant

Minnesota will receive $45 million in federal education money from the competitive grant program known as Race to the Top, specifically to enhance early childhood education programs.
by Tim Pugmire and Tom Weber

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Why we shouldn't listen to those college naysayers

Kent Pekel of the University of Minnesota and Dane Smith of Growth & Justice explain in the Star Tribune why succumbing to the “Is College Worth It?” mentality — fostered by many recent articles and commentaries — is dangerous: Allowing these nuances and footnotes to foster a new public policy fad — along the lines that…
by Alex Friedrich

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