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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Essay-Scoring Businessnew
Behind the scenes of standardized testing.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jessica Lussenhop |
02-23-2011 |
Education
Chronic Underfunding is Leading Rural Schools to Desperate Measuresnew
Most rural districts are graduating more students than they are enrolling because of the declining and aging population in outstate areas. Because Minnesota funds schools on a per-pupil basis, declining enrollments can affect small schools disproportionately. But schools still have to heat the buildings; they still have to staff the school. And rural schools often have higher transportation costs.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Walton |
07-02-2008 |
Education
St. Thomas Law School Bans Public Service at Planned Parenthoodnew
The controversy is just the latest political dust-up at the embattled Catholic university.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
04-30-2008 |
Education
Banning Desmond Tutunew
Put off by his controversial words on Israel, the University of St. Thomas snubs a Nobel Laureate.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matt Snyders |
10-03-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
A New Generation of Hmong Makes Its Own Exodusnew
The fleeing of recent Hmong arrivals from Minneapolis public schools provides a telling snapshot of the difficulties and dysfunction that plague the city's system.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Paul Demko |
06-20-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
After Virginia Tech, Even Talking About Guns is Grounds for Suspensionnew
Troy Scheffler had no idea that advocating for the right to bear arms would get him kicked off Hamline University's campus.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Ward Rubrecht |
05-09-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
A Useful Talking Point, but Are the Numbers Reliable?new
A Minnesota professor rides the Gonzales Eight to fame, but there are holes in the research.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
03-22-2007 |
Education
Reading, Writing and Righteousnessnew
That teacher who made the news for coming out to his second-grade class? My son is in that class.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
10-20-2006 |
Education
Tags: Education
