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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 MN comp-sci students can get training, work and future jobs

“We saw jobs being sent offshore and it was like, why couldn’t we take that same work, send it to students, price it about the same and then the clients have the [added] value of hiring the students on full time after graduation.” — Maverick Software Consulting founder Martin Hebig on how he figured his…
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What some St. Olaf students think of Carleton College

What some St. Olaf students think of Carleton College

Nah, this isn’t official St. Olaf gear. Found one of these after talking to some students at St. Olaf College last week. They said some Ole student started selling them a while back, and that campus administration really frowned on them. (I’ve got a call in to officials there.) They also said Carleton has its…
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How Bemidji-minded students responded to Minnesota College Application Week

“I feared that people would just use the shotgun approach with applications, but it appears students did carefully look at options of college.” — Harry Cottrell, dean of students at Northwest Technical College, on how students took advantage of waived application fees during last month’s Minnesota College Application Week, and yet didn’t use the waiver as a…
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Notes in the Margins: Nerdfighters, Obama and job training factories

Obama Meets With College Leaders on Rising Costs Participants at the roundtable said there was discussion on the role the federal government should play to improve graduation rates. (The New York Times) AFT: Completion means ‘cranking out’ workers Corporate interests are pushing the “completion agenda” and turning  community colleges into “job training factories,” charges a letter from the American…
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How some St. Olaf students show profs appreciation

Lots of students at liberal arts colleges talk about the quality of the teaching, and the close relationships that classes form with their professors. At St. Olaf, they’ve put it down in writing. On a tour of the campus, I stumbled upon a temporary shrine of sorts to professors in the skyway between Buntrock Commons…
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Video: Debate on whether too many kids go to college

Video: Debate on whether too many kids go to college

Judging from the material I’ve received this morning, today seems to be the big Let’s-Question-the-Value-of-College Day. (And it’ll keep popping up. Always does.) The main event here at MPR is at noon: Midday’s broadcast of the Intelligence Squared structured debate: Too many kids go to college. Guests Henry Bienen: President Emeritus, Northwestern University Charles Murray:…
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Today's Question: Is the value of college overemphasized?

Today's Question: Is the value of college overemphasized?

Todays Question on MPR– Is the value of college overemphasized? — prompted this comment from GregX, who said American business has generally abandoned its its job of training workers: I don’t know if we have an economic system that is designed to let them do anything else (but go to college). I think that system…
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Minn. online schools go old school to nab cyber-truants

Minn. online schools go old school to nab cyber-truants

Minnesota's online schools have quietly persuaded county prosecutors to accept an expansive view of the state's outdated truancy law and use the courts to reel hundreds of cybertruants back to class, but both prosecutors and educators agree the makeshift arrangement can't last.

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Why college isn't everyone's path to success

Sean Kershaw and Stacy Becker of the Citizens League in St. Paul write in the Star Tribune that whether students should go to college is a much more complicated issue than society makes it out to be: “Rather than pound, pound, pound into their heads “Go to college, you’ll earn more,” we owe them a more…
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