Bob CollinsIn Duluth, “smart boards” were a focus of a $315 million dollar plan to add more technology to the classroom. But there’s no such thing as “long range” in technology. It doesn’t take long to be obsolete. Read more →
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Education
It’s pretty tough to get ahead in today’s working world, so we have to admire the pluck of Brian McNaughton, an associate professor at Colorado State University.
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‘He used to have secret handshakes with people,’ Leila Ramgren, 10, tells StoryCorps. ‘And if you didn’t have enough on your tray, he would pull out graham crackers or something. And he did it with his own money.’ Read more →
Katie Erbe-Shea, one of Minnesota’s best high school basketball players back in the day, will not be getting the head coaching job at Lourdes High School, the Catholic high school in Rochester.
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Around the time that Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite, sent the U.S. into a panic in 1960, the country began testing the aptitude of 440,000 students for the first time, with the results being sent to high school guidance counselors. The survey is still reaping dividends. Read more →
High school commencement speeches can be forgettable things. Not so this year in Plano, Texas, where Sef Scott did the honors.k Read more →
Right up until the last minute, Tomahawk High School in north central Wisconsin did what it could to keep some basic American values out of earshot of people attending a commencement this week.
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School districts walk a fine line when a student takes his/her own life, often saying nothing, acknowledging little in the belief that to talk about a student’s suicide leads to others. It’s one of the reasons why the fact suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people is a fact that surprises so many people. Read more →
We love raccoons. Rats? Not so much.
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What if someone paid attention to the brainpower — in this case the high school robotics competition and its ability to capture the hearts of a small town? Someone has. In Greenbush, Minn., populationn 719.
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The intersection of arts, culture, and mass murder is nearly impossible to comprehend, but we’re getting there, sadly. Read more →
Your kindergarteners are going to be singing new nursery rhymes. Read more →
All Sioux Falls Christian senior Kate Wynja had to do yesterday to win the second round of the Class A state golf meet and her second high school championship was stay quiet.
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While we’re aware that people will read more into this than is necessary, we will pass this along anyway in the acknowledgment that the last days of school, on perfect June days, it’s great to be a kid. Read more →
Graduation season always brings with it news of school administrators somewhere taking advantage of one last chance to control the lives of the kids they’ve just sent out to the world. Read more →