March 18, 2002 - Superintendent Pat Harvey says St. Paul is her home and she has no plans to leave for another job. Harvey withdrew today (Monday) as a candidate for the superintendent vacancy in Portland, Oregon. She says she wants to finish the school reform efforts she began three years ago. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports...
March 20, 2002 - A Univeristy of Minnesota professor is one of the ten most wired women in the world, according to ABC news. Nora Paul directs the University's Institute for New Media Studies at the school of journalism. She focuses her work on maximizing the internet's potential to transform and improve the traditional news media. Other women on the list include the CEO of eBay and the director of the MIT Initiative on technology. Paul says she understood the promise of computer technology early on:
March 22, 2002 - The Twin Cities has the top so-called "knowledge economy" in the world, according to a think tank in the United Kingdom. Robert Huggins Associates measured hundreds of regions worldwide in areas ranging from public education spending to the number of patents registered. Runners up include San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. Art Rolnick is director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He says the term "knowledge economy" is hard to define:
March 22, 2002 - How effective is online education? This is Future Tense for March 22nd. I'm Jon Gordon. Internet-based instruction promises to free us from the restrictions of geography. But a new study finds that you might learn more in a traditional classroom. Michigan State University students who took a virtual micro economics class from professor Carl Liedholm performed worse on exams- ten percent worse - than those who attended Liedholm's live micro economics class. Liedholm says his study took into account and controlled for differences in SAT scores and GPAs for the two kinds of class. (q/a)
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March 22, 2002 - MPR's Cara Hetland reports on The National Symphony Orchestra as it concludes its 10-day residency in South Dakota. The 202 musicians in the orchestra visit one state a year to share their talent and passion for music with teachers, students and fellow musicians. The National Symphony Orchestra crammed nearly 120 events and concerts into a schedule that took the musicians to all parts of the state.
March 26, 2002 - The University of Minnesota-Duluth's women's hockey team is back in Minnesota after winning their second consecutive NC-double-A championship. The Bulldogs have returned from the East Coast, where they defeated Brown University 3 to 2 in a fast-paced Championship game. Joining us on the line is Shannon Miller, head coach for the Bulldogs. That's Shannon Miller, head coach of the N-C double-A champion University of Minnesota-Duluth women's hockey team.
March 29, 2002 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews students on who will be meeting with R.T. Rybak about community issues. A group of students from South High School in Minneapolis want to solve the social problems they see around them, and they'll get a chance to share their ideas with mayor R.T. Rybak. The students were asked what they'd like to change about their community. Ryan Peterson and Nora Williams are two students who will meet with the mayor. Peterson says the students first identified the issues that affected their community the most. One planned topic of discussion is police profiling.
March 29, 2002 - The March edition of MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series, featuring Amal Yusuf of the Somalian Women's Association, Sister Gabrielle Herber and Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman.
April 3, 2002 - One Minnesota county is trying a new way of keeping people out of jail. Becker county officials hope having churches adopt jail inmates, will reduce recidivism. Mainstreet Radios Dan Gunderson reports.