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By Joe Nathan on March 26, 2015 at 9:27 am Here’s a brief financial report that should not put people to sleep. Overall, about 70 percent of Minnesota’s school districts and charters recently received the Minnesota Department of Education Finance Award. But according to data from Keith Hovis, MDE’s deputy communications director, there’s almost a […]
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By Joe Nathan on March 19, 2015 at 8:43 am For five hours on Saturday, March 14, I was mesmerized. Students taught me about a range of history subjects as I helped judge websites they produced for Minnesota History Day. Both research and experience show that what some people call “project-based learning” is a winning […]
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By Joe Nathan on March 11, 2015 at 3:37 pm “Amazing,” “wonderful” and “great” are how high school graduates have described dual-credit classes (high school and college credit) they took on their high school campus. If bills currently in the Minnesota House and Senate are adopted, there would be many more such courses all over […]
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By Joe Nathan on March 4, 2015 at 10:45 am Two St. Paul Harding Senior High School seniors recently did one of the hardest things in education: They retained the eager, rapt attention of more than 30 middle school students for 40 minutes. Ismael Kamara and Sheriden Groves, themselves Battle Creek Middle School alumni, spoke […]
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This article originally appeared at: http://hometownsource.com/2015/02/11/joe-nathan-column-new-ideas-attitudes-opportunities-for-students/ By Joe Nathan on February 11, 2015 New ideas, attitudes and opportunities are coming for Minnesota students. That was a central theme at the Feb. 6 “Pathways to Postsecondary” conference, cosponsored by the Minnesota Department of Education and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. If things work out as state […]