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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.

St. Thomas professor: Tenured deadwood is rare

St. Thomas professor: Tenured deadwood is rare

In Sept. 2008, University of St. Thomas professor Susan Alexander wrote a short defense of tenure in the university’s blog The Scroll, saying it did not mean employment for life: There are very specific conditions under which faculty may lose employment. These range from financial exigency to moral turpitude, aka depravity. Admittedly, fairly serious grounds.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Chancellor: Budget cuts are coming to UW-Stout

Chancellor: Budget cuts are coming to UW-Stout

MPR Public Insight Network member Brent Ristow, once a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Stout in Menomonie, said a recent faculty e-mail he received indicates unexpected cuts are coming soon: TO: UW-Stout Faculty and Staff via electronic mail FROM: Charles W. Sorensen Chancellor DATE: October 18, 2011 RE: Additional State Budget Cuts The…
by Alex Friedrich

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How many Minnesota jobs don't have skilled graduates to fill them?

Considering the Governor’s Job Summit happening today and MnSCU’s push for career technical education (announced last week), check out this snippet from the Minneapolis – St. Paul Business Journal on this year’s Minnesota Skills Gap Survey: About 45 percent of manufacturers in the 2011 Minnesota Skills Gap Survey said the shortage of skilled workers was…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Rosenstone's chancellor medallion is like

What Rosenstone's chancellor medallion is like

Here’s a little info on that medallion that Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system chancellor Steven Rosenstone received at his inauguration last week. The medallion was created in a months-long process by Minnesota State College–Southeast Technical jewelry instructor Todd Hawkinson and six of his students. (Hawkinson also produced this year’s medallions for MnSCU’s Excellence in Teaching…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: South Korea, aid fraud and courting two-year students

In South Korea, too many college grads, too few jobs Americans who deem South Korea’s education system a model (President Obama, among others) might be surprised at one message leaders here are delivering to their youth: Drop out, please. (The Washington Post) Occupy movement now reaching students in remote corners of U.S. Metropolitan hubs such as San…
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Minnesota educators tackle standards for evaluating principals

The state education system lacks a method with which to evaluate school principals. A growing body of research highlights the crucial role school principals play in creating good environments for learning. With increasing pressure over the last decade to improve student achievement, a group of educators will develop the evaluation criteria.
by Tom Weber

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St. Cloud school district reaches agreement on complaint that Somali American students were harassed

St. Cloud school district reaches agreement on complaint that Somali American students were harassed

A tentative agreement to resolve complaints that Somali-American students were harassed in St. Cloud calls for the school district to report any future incidents to the U.S. Department of Education.
by Matt Sepic

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