Bob Collins
Minnesota’s 2014 teacher of the year isn’t interested in being the poster boy for people who oppose the last-in-first-out system of teacher layoffs, even though he’s gotten his layoff notice. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Education
Last week, all 12 schools in the Big Ten sent teams to the Big Ten Network ‘League of Legends’ tournament, thanks to scholarships provided by the company that makes the game.
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A Lakeville South high school teen has successfully tested a rule that had prevented her from trying out for the boy’s tennis team. Read more →
There had to be a lot of pressure on Zachary, Aaron, Nigel, and Nick Wade of Ohio. They are quadruplets and, presumably, none of them wanted to be the one who wasn’t accepted by an Ivy League school. Read more →
It must have been embarrassing for the school system in Pittsburg, Kansas when a group of young journalists did the job the adults who run the system should’ve done. Read more →
The kids at Forestview Middle School’s STEM team in Baxter, Minn., were getting pretty antsy to see what would happen if they launched a balloon. But bad weather through February kept it on terra firma.
There was pressure involved, with the temperatures warming in lake country. Read more →
PBS has found an unlikely ally in its fight to save its funding from a plan to send it to the military: a military general.
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The 2016 decision to close Marine, Withrow, and Oak Park elementary schools came just a year after voters in the district approved a levy and bond to build a new school. But a new school superintendent said the demographics of ISD 834 dictated the closings, which have split the communities the district serves. Read more →
Gregory Watson was so unhappy with the ‘C’ he received from teacher Sharon Waite, he started working to advance the subject of his paper: The proposed 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that hadn’t garnered enough states’ approval to be added.
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No doubt, it’s true that the teacher shortage is nuanced and complicated and beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. I just know every story I read about teaching is a story about people far better than me.
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Kids, here’s a tip. If your friend is in danger of choking to death, try not to throw up your hands and walk away because it’s grossing you out. Also, learn the Heimlich maneuver. Read more →
Upon review, this wasn’t such a good idea at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
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The Boston school system is the first in the U.S. to throw out the Mercator map, which distorts the side of the continents closer to the poles. It’s the product of trying to take a spherical map and make it a flat one. North America and Europe look bigger than they actually are in relation to the rest of the globe. Read more →
U of M engineering student Collin Brown got his diploma yesterday after university president Eric Kaler agreed to hold the ceremony early so that Brown’s dad could see his son get a diploma. Read more →
A group of students at the University of Minnesota Duluth could’ve spent spring break doing what so many other college students do — partying. They had bigger goals. They wanted to learn more about the history of civil rights in America. Read more →