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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.

Carleton tops Forbes college rankings in MN

Carleton tops Forbes college rankings in MN

  Calebrw via Wikimedia Commons Checkin’ out those stellar rankings Summer means more rankings, so here’s this year’s installation of Forbes magazine’s annual list of Best Colleges in America. Take this all with a grain of salt, of course. One can debate the soundness of the methodology. The kicker for me is the volatility of the results. What…
by Alex Friedrich

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Wadena: The kids are movin' in

Wadena: The kids are movin' in

MPR Photo/Ambar Espinoza Totaled: Wadena-Deer Creek High School Make room, M State. The high schoolers are coming over. They’ve had no place to go ever since a June tornado totaled Wadena-Deer Creek High School, so officials at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Wadena have offered to lease them some space until they get their own.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Telling fact from fiction in the new media world

Telling fact from fiction in the new media world

National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller speaks at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival about news literacy, and how to tell fact from fiction in a world of information.

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Notes in the margins: A media roundup

Decline of reading: One University of Minnesota student’s lament about how little she reads anymore when she’s not working. Check out the parts about the Internet and pressure to write. She may be on to something. No, I’m not a professor emeritus: Retirees are checking out college classes as the new leisure activity. Facebook isn’t the problem:…
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A couple of cool U of M offerings

In case you haven’t checked out other parts of the MPR site, here are a couple of higher-education pieces done by other staffers. In her State of the Arts blog, Marianne Combs writes about the University of Minnesota’s new Master of Professional Studies in Arts and Cultural Leadership for those who’ve already been working in the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Crossroads has it tough, Mayo says grading is off

Crossroads has it tough, Mayo says grading is off

  Knowledge Seeker via Wikimedia It says its school doesn’t belong on the list Here’s what MPR’s Tim Post got from officials at Crossroad College and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine regarding their inclusion on a federal list of financially fragile colleges: Crossroads: President Michael Kilgallin admits times are tough: “The college has been…
by Alex Friedrich

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Hamline: Endowment took a hit

Vice President for Finance Douglas P. Anderson of Hamline University has answered the question by MPR’s Tim Post of why Hamline made the feds’ list of colleges that received failing financial health grades. Anderson said in an e-mailed statement that the university “remains financially healthy.” The data is based on the 2008-2009 fiscal year, he said, and…
by Alex Friedrich

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Emmer adds little to already quiet candidate group

Emmer adds little to already quiet candidate group

MPR Photo/Elliot deBruyn I wonder what he’s thinking Just great. Taking politics completely out of this, I am now stuck having to cover the three gubernatorial candidates who have said the least about higher education this campaign, at least judging from the gaping holes in their Web sites. Just before the primary I talked to…
by Alex Friedrich

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