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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.

Midmorning tomorrow: Student loans

Listen in tomorrow at 9 a.m. for a segment on students borrowing more money than they can handle. Not only do Americans’ student loans exceed their credit card debt, but the U.S. Secretary of Education expects students will soon default at the highest rate since 1998. Midmorning explores the lending practices that experts blame for…
by Alex Friedrich

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U-Minn official, deans: Troubled film has issues

A piece by the U’s student news site, mndaily.com, elaborates a bit on what University Relations VP Karen Himle– who has been at the center of the flap over the U’s pulling of the environmental film Troubled Waters — and deans in the ag department apparently found troubling about the film. She said the film’s…
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Learn what The Other Hangover is

Learn what The Other Hangover is

I’m no expert, but I’ve seen a number of drinking-awareness campaigns in my day, and they’ve all focused on binging’s extreme consequences: DUI fatalities, alcoholism and pregnancy, to name just a few. The one going around campus at the University of Minnesota right now seems different, perhaps because it’s the work of students. Instead of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Troubled Waters film flap: Scientific or editorial?

In case you missed it, in his blog News Cut, MPR’s Bob Collins presents his latest take on the U’s “Troubled Waters” flap. The U’s official line has been that it yanked the environmental film to review it for scientific accuracy. But Collins says that the assertion by the dean of the U’s ag department…
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Notes in the Margins: Debating at Mac, Netflix, the working class and insurance

Trying to revive policy debate at Mac Some students and alumni lamented what they saw as the destruction of the college’s 100-year debating tradition after the administration effectively eliminated the subsection on policy debate. Now some students are forming a policy debate club and looking for financial backers in the hope of getting back into…
by Alex Friedrich

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Breakfast program helps students stay healthy

Breakfast program helps students stay healthy

A new pilot program at Burnsville High School, dubbed "Breakfast to Go." has made breakfast more convenient for students at the school.

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Minnesota college student invents hands-free mouse

Minnesota college student invents hands-free mouse

It has only been three months since Ovsak got his driver's license, but the high school senior and University of Minnesota post-secondary student has already become a budding entrepreneur.

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Film funder to U: Assessing Troubled Waters for us isn't your job

Today’s story by Twin Cities Daily Planet reporter Molly Priesmeyer takes a poke at the University’s statement that officials there pulled the environmental film “Troubled Waters” to review whether it “meets the specifications of the legislative appropriation to the University.” An official from one of the funding organizations told her, in effect: That’s not the…
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U-Minn dean: Troubled Waters 'vilifies agriculture'

MPR’s Stephanie Hemphill has an update on the University of Minnesota’s yanking of the “Troubled Waters” environmental documentary: The Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture says the premiere of a film about pollution in the Mississippi River was postponed because it “vilifies agriculture.” … Dean Al Levine said the film opens with…
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